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And yet Goldman's name remains untarnished and it remains in business. Well, at least you and I know not to do business with it.

I see. You're a moving target.

A neat reply, up till the point (not for the first time) you subtly exchange 'free market capitalist' for 'capitalist'.

I wish to be recognised as a free market capitalist. Nothing else (at...

If your concern is for the poor and wretched of the world, then deprecating the best system yet devised for lifting them out of their benighted condition seems, to me at least, an odd thing to do....

And as to your response on blame by association, you're comparing apples and oranges. A blood libel (as David Irving [sometimes I like being provocative; attaboy!] would call it) is different from...

Just out of curiosity, how, then, do you define yourself (assuming you do so at all)?

And where have I expressed indifference to poverty? Did I not say, in one of my earliest posts that I was not...

Stavros, as to what the point is, isn't it this: you're a communist (not, as I previously supposed, a social democrat) not unnaturally embarrassed by the body count racked up over the last century by...

A propos your claim that capitalism isn't a system to live and let live, weren't you arguing, a comment or two back, that in a system of pure free markets, the 99% of losers would gang up on the...

On a website dedicated to sybaritic enjoyment of a rare and venal pleasure, I am surprised to see so many commenters exercised by the ingestion of narcotics.

It would be ironic if our rulers decided to shut down one of these supposedly all-important arteries of (inter)national economies not because they were bust and because bailouts are wrong in...

Well you learn something new every day. I had no idea that the privateers and freebooters of the early modern Spanish kings, much less Victorian gringo imperialists, were in fact righteous...

You're funny.

I originally posed the question at comment #41. I then repeated it at your request at #104.

And since the question implies the absurdity of your contention, you'd do well to answer it or be left...

I wasn't asking Marx, I was asking you.

Let's face it, Stavros, I can afford to be smug given that between 94m and 149m people have not been killed in the name of that which I espouse (The Black Book of Communism - Wikipedia, the free...

You must then be aghast whenever you hear a politician talk of preparing school children for their role in the 'national economy'. Those good little worker bees.

Another dimension to economics? Are you coming over all Flat Earth Society on me?

Sure, you can order economic affairs on the primitive model of bedouin, and a variety of others but, and it's a...

Actually, my question was whether you had asked yourself why, if as you say governments can just print money with no ill effects, your government doesn't just turn you all into billionaires overnight?

I have no fixed views on copyright and patent protections. It's a subject hotly debated among libertarians, and I haven't arrived at a conclusion.

How will you pay for welfare and other so-called entitlements, if you abolish money?

According to wikipedia, the plant was 49% owned by the Indian government, and the disaster has given rise to criminal prosecutions.

But more specifically, I meant: what would have happened to a...

You don't seem to be following mine. Ships in the night, etc.

Couple of other points:

1. I don't argue for the absence of government.
2. As to what I personally would do with the losers, that...

And here was my question: "So government can print as much money as it likes, with no ill effects?

Good grief. Doing my damndest to avoid an ad hominem reply, and realising that I'll probably...

Ho, boy. trish, the blood and treasure that has been expended on getting the NHS right. Now there's a religion we Brits almost all get behind. Except those of kneeling at the Randian altar, of...

Or even "saving peoples' lives". Go on, have a look at the link I provided in comment #97, I dare you.