Arguing with a capitalist

[Iseult]

What's the best way to win an argument with an ardent fee-market capitalist?

It seems they're always throwing "facts" at you and using the USSR as the example of why the concept of the collectivist economic model is a "failure". They always seem to use rhetorical tricks and faulty logic to justify their positions.

What's the best way to put them in their place?

Help!

[Global_Justice]

read marx, understand his theories and that should be a start. marx countered alot of the arguments likely to be thrown at you in a free market vs socialism debate.

alot of what he wrote you can read here..

http://libcom.org/library/karl-marx

:)

[Switchblade]

there aint nothing wrong with a free market.


Lets let the government control business and agriculture why dont we?
I mean after all, the government should know how to grow better crops than a farmer right?

I mean that Cousin Fucking former president FDR gained a lot of control over America's Farmers with his Agriculture Adjustment Act. Where he and his cronies put regulations over how much crops farmers could grow, and how much livestock they should raise. In the process, the farmers had to rip up a bunch of crops and kill millions of calves and swine. So the government regulated the food supply and made it limited and in the process, farmers had to raise the prices because they had to keep making profits in order to stay in business and feed the public. Keep in mind that this was done during the depression and people were already poor and starving!!!

Luckily the Supreme court delcared the AAA unconstitutional

[Red Dao]

Originally posted by [email protected] 25 2006, 06:07 AM
there aint nothing wrong with a free market.


Lets let the government control business and agriculture why dont we?
I mean after all, the government should know how to grow better crops than a farmer right?

I mean that Cousin Fucking former president FDR gained a lot of control over America's Farmers with his Agriculture Adjustment Act. Where he and his cronies put regulations over how much crops farmers could grow, and how much livestock they should raise. In the process, the farmers had to rip up a bunch of crops and kill millions of calves and swine. So the government regulated the food supply and made it limited and in the process, farmers had to raise the prices because they had to keep making profits in order to stay in business and feed the public. Keep in mind that this was done during the depression and people were already poor and starving!!!

Luckily the Supreme court delcared the AAA unconstitutional
in perfect communism, wouldnt the farmers be the government?

[Umoja]

The best way to argue with an ardent free market capitalist would be to read a volume on micro and macro economics. You can't argue the bible with a fundamentalist christian until you've read it, right?