Capitalism
Capitalism Defined
Capitalism is merely an economic system based on private ownership, control, and operation of the means of production and their beneficial use.[1]
Milton Friedman explained that "History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition."
Capital
Before the term capitalism existed a capitalist was an owner of capital which meant wealth in the form of "real money" or other assets owned by an individual.
Capital was derived from a word meaning livestock counted by the "head" which was a way of counting wealth. In the 1800's it was typically cash or liquid assets being held or obtained for expenditures. Cash did not include notes but only real money of "present value". A note, pledge or promise would not be considered true capital and should be at least categorized under Karl Marx's "Fictitious capital"[2]
Karl Marx's bitterness lead him to write, "Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks." But the truth is capital allows the poor to store wealth for themselves as well as others.
Not an -ism
Some complain about Capitalism because it is an "-ism" as if some how that discredits. This is often people with an attitude of jealousy or superiority. That negative ideas connected to an "-ism" is usually a projection of their own prejudice at best or ignorance or both.
But considering the concerted effort to demonize the base element we may identify as Capitalism it may be important to briefly address this perception.
What is an -ism?
The use of the suffix "-ism" is said to mean "a distinctive practice, system, or philosophy, typically a political ideology or an artistic movement."
While capitalism the distinct practice of recognizing the individual has it does not seem to include system, or definable philosophy and is not political nor artistic. movement."
True Christianity is "a distinctive practice". It would have to be void of any covetous practices that might infringe upon "private ownership, control, and operation of the means of production and their beneficial use" which is the original base definition of capitalism. There is no cause or theory
Merriam-Webster Dictionary says that an -ism is "a distinctive doctrine, cause, or theory". So it should be clear since Jesus had "a distinctive doctrine and a cause" that it too qualifies as an -ism on both counts.
Anyone suggesting that the appearance of the suffix -ism is an argument or reason to discount the idea of the "private ownership, control, and operation of the means of production and their beneficial use" is a bad thing is grasping at straws if not strawmen.
Not a System
A "system" is "a set of principles or procedures according to which something is done; an organized framework or method."
Merriam-Webster Dictionary says a system is "a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole" but capitalism with out the modifiers like oligarchic, plutocratic, state-guided, or corporate does not meet the clear definition of a system because by it self it is merely the individual's "private ownership, control, and operation of the means of production and their beneficial use".
If there was only one man on the face of the earth he could qualify as a capitalist. But to have "oligarchic capitalism" or almost any other kind of or category of capitalism you need more than one individual or person.
And then the kind of system will determine the nature of the system but the basic element of private ownership is not a system.
Even though many will say that "Capitalism is a social system based on the principle of individual rights. Politically, it is the system of laissez-faire (freedom). Legally it is a system of objective laws (rule of law as opposed to rule of man). Economically, when such freedom is applied to the sphere of production, its result is the free-market." [3]
But these elements of socio, political, or judicial are added in to capitalism to form the system but are not a part of capitalism. The "set of principles or procedures" very and are distinct from capitalism. The manner in which these elements form an "organized framework or method" will defind the good and bad of the category of capitalism to the point that what is called capitalism is not capitalism.
Not Capitalism
The statement “Corporate capitalism actually is capitalism.” is misleading and in fact inaccurate if not entirely dishonest.
The statement “Capitalism emerged with the invention of corporations and depends on them to exist.” Is also false because since “Capitalism is an economic system that recognizes individual rights to the means of production” which begins with the labor of the individual. The right to the labor of individuals is inan endowed right by God and far predates the rise of the term capitalism in the 1840’s.
Since, corporatism is a “political and economic system” “Corporate capitalism is not the same as capitalism.”
Some social scientists and economists classify capitalist economies into four categories: oligarchic capitalism, state-guided capitalism, big-firm capitalism, and entrepreneurial capitalism. Oligarchy and plutocracy are two forms of government forms that are ruled by minority groups. However, the ruling parties in these two government forms differ. Accordingly, the oligarchy is the rule by a privileged minority whereas plutocracy is the rule by a wealthy minority. Corporate capitalism would often fall under the latter rule type or Corporate Capitalism will fall within its own classification.
Any "system" that claims to be a capitalism characterized by the dominance of hierarchical or bureaucratic corporations using political power over the individual to the deprivation of his natural and God given rights to his labor or fruits of his labor is not true capitalism but some subordinate perversion or pseudo capitalism like oligarchic, plutocratic, state-guided, or corporate capitalism. Leave of those modifiers and you are no longer talking about the "private ownership of your labor and the fruits of that labor".
Economists create the classification of welfare state capitalism which just a more extreme form of state-guided capitalism based on using the power of the State to redistribute some of the resources of the economy through what has been called “legal charity”. Legal charity in the form of a social safety net is the opposite of what Moses and Christ said to do but it is in conformity with Herod, the Pharisees and their Corban as well as FDR, LBJ, Cain and Pharaoh.
There is a Laissez-faire (French for “let do”) capitalism classification that is probably the only classification that could be real capitalism because it is based on letting people do as much as they want, with minimal if not complete absence of interference from the “state”.
From the beginning
Capitalism as the private ownership of your own labor and the fruits of that labor was here from the beginning.[4] The term capitalism was clearly hijacked by men like Karl Marx the bitter poor intellectual and Edward Mandell House the rich and powerful banker who both hated capitalism as it was from the beginning and desired communism.
Moral Capitalism
Capitalism has been defined as, "an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth." Origin of capitalism. 1850-1855.
During that period corporations were the result of an agreement between individuals and had not yet received the legal status of a "person".
Capitalism like Socialism only works with moral people but a moral people have no need or interest in Socialism which is often considered Capitalisms antitheses.
- Capitalism has been getting a bad rap, as if it is the cause of world problems but maybe that is "not real capitalism".
Capitalism is moral when the people are moral, but socialism is immoral whether or not the people are moral. The definition of moral is "concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character."
Human character is the product of the individual, and socialism is a product of the collective. "How is it possible that so many young Americans view socialism as kind and capitalism as cruel?"
The answer is simple:
When in 1910 51% of the people started sending their children to public schools which is socialism, followed by more and more federal funding and influence;
When in 1913 people started accepting three party debt notes as if they were capital;
When in 1933 people looked to a system of social security to provide for their parents;
When the Democrats voted in FDR New Deal;
When in 1964 LBJ began a war on poverty with tax dollars.
: If capitalism is "the private ownership, control and operation of the means of production and their beneficial use" then there is no real capitalism in the world today. Heavy progressive taxation of labor and land does not exist in real capitalism. You have "dissolved the bands" of liberty through your sloth, avarice and covetous practices.[5]
The United States has been becoming a Socialist society since the first part of the 1900's and becoming more so while claiming to be a capitalist country. After 1910, the majority of people growing up in America began to get educated in public schools teaching 'humanism' and social 'democracy'. Free education for all children in government schools is the tenth plank of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto. Governments have wanted to use Schools as Tools for centuries, and the people have allowed it just to get something free at the expense of their neighbor. They will pay dearly for it.
The United States has been becoming less and less capitalist to the point where there is little left but pseudo capitalism in America. First, there is a serious lack of real capital since the creation of the Federal Reserve and then little left of the primary capital of all men, their labor, with the activation of Social Security Numbers issued as Federal produced Employee Identification numbers, and with it the collection of Income tax on private labor. Then people also have no true and actual title in land but settle for a Legal title subject to a property beneficial use taxes.
All these activities and practices are a part of socialism and economic theories found in the Communist Manifesto. But all the things that go wrong are blamed on capitalism when the truth is most often the opposite is true. There is really very little "private ownership, control and operation of the means of production" in the modern pseudo capitalism. It is like blaming what is commonly used for money for the problems produced by people choosing to not use Real Money which is simply "just weights and measures" as advised by God[6].
Since the beginning when man has tried to decide for himself what was good and what was evil based on his personal knowledge, confusion has reigned. The result is that the "fallen man" then tries to blame the problems on things, other people and systems. The problems lie in the hearts and minds of the people and an honest approach and willing to see all things anew is essential in our personal quest for the truth.
- Under Capitalism,
- Man may exploit Man.
- Under Socialism,
- The process is reversed,
- Man shall exploit Man.
The moral component in a capitalist society remains the responsibility of the people and without that love and charity for your neighbor in the practice of pure Religion capitalism can and will lead to iniquity and destruction. "Socialism is the religion you get if you have no religion."
- "Capitalism is an economic system in which capital assets are privately owned, and goods and services are produced for profit in a market economy." [7]
The United States has been moving away from Capitalism as an economic system since the institution of the Federal Reserve and abandoning private ownership of property. A legal title to land and property does not include the beneficial interest. Americans have moved from a Republic to a Democracy which leads the people to a pursuit of socialism to provide benefits, especially in a bankrupt economy and government borrowing.
There are good capitalists and bad capitalists, just like there are good and bad blacks and whites etc. And when it comes to mass murder, socialists like Stalin and the Chinese communists win the world prize for most dead, even out-doing the socialist Hitler.
So where and why did capitalism start getting a bad name?
- "When I say "capitalism," I mean a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism—with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church." Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness.
Natural law allows one to halt or detain or even restrain someone for the violation of rights inherit in someone else. It does not allow you to punish, fine or regulate pre-crime.
In order to license and regulate natural activities where no rights are violated, one needs a contractual society or legal system. Legal systems have legal regulations of activities. They do not regulate rights, but privileges. These privileges are created by contract. Or in other words, contracts make the law.
Economy is a product of the labor of the people. In a free society, the possession of property, rights and the means of production is in the hands of the people individually, family by family, and not in the hands of the State as a collective or corporate entity. If the State can control the economy, the people are not free.
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There has not been true capitalism in America since 1933[8] if not 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve and fractional reserve banking[9] which has produced a nation of debt-ism not capitalism. “Of course debtism[10] leads to despotism[11] which is not the result of capitalism but rather Capitolism[12]...”
The first capital of mankind is the labor of a man, and without it all other capital is meaningless.[13]
If you take away or infringe upon the right of a man to redistribute his own labor, you have taken away the life of a man. As brothers in humanity, we should share what we produce with others in need, but as free souls under God, we should have an exclusive right to make that choice. Socialism in all forms must take away that right.[14] Americans have become socialists a long time ago, and that is why we are failing as a nation. To desire the benefits of a socialist State is to covet, and to consume those benefits is to bite our neighbor.
Greedy Capitalists offered the slothful socialist hearts a way to create money out of nothing, and this led to wild and greedy investment frenzy that brought a collapse of the economy, despite the warnings of true [Capitalism|Capitalists]].
Creation of fractional reserve money is not Capitalism, because the money produced is not capital. It is debt. It not only is the unrighteous Mammon, but it makes slaves of men. When a monetary debt system is coupled with the Corban of the Pharisees and a system of Corvee, it makes men Merchandise.
Free Governments
In the book The Enterprise of Law, Dr. Bruce Benson shows that, in fact, "our modern reliance on government to make law and establish order is not the historical norm." The historical norm was customary law, spontaneously created and voluntarily obeyed. It provided law and order in all early societies and free societies throughout history. It often included written guidelines like the Ten Commandments to aid in the understanding and application of Natural Law which unifies a free community without depriving the individual of their liberty.
These guidelines should not be construed as statutory. These societies formed patterns and customs that cultivate social virtues, and natural bonds of honor and caring between free families in a network founded on voluntarism and charitable practices. The skills required to maintain a free society must be diligently pursued so that it may survive in a hostile world.
A free government is one in which people individually have power over how the economy of the government shall operate. In other words the people are only free if they have the power to determine their contribution to support the operation of their government. If the government can force the contributions it needs, it is NOT a free government.
Such governments were like early Israel where the government was dependent upon freewill offerings to the ministers of their individual choice. They were expected to give an amount close to a minimum of 10% to the government official they personally chose.
The people as individuals owned the beneficial interest of themselves and their property and everything they produced within the family. This was their personal estate which included natural rights. There was law, such as they could not steal from others or murder, which included injuring others or even willfully endanger or neglect to prevent injuries to others, etc.
Courts consisted of the people who decided fact and law[15] and there were appeals courts amongst the government officials that could acquit if there was evidence of miscarriages of justice in the people's courts.[16]
These government officials were public servants. They had to serve the needs of the individual families that supported them according to their service[17] or the elders of those families would give to another public servant who would.
Electing men to provide the services of government is the formation of government. The manner of support that government may rely upon determines if the people are free. If the officials of government are titular and can only obtain free will offerings from the people to provide the services of government, then the people are free. If the governments can exercise authority one over the other, even if the leaders are elected by a majority of the people, then the people are not free.
The power of every man to govern himself was granted by God to men. This is the natural state of man. Men may then endow that power upon other men, which we call government. There are many ways to form governments which we call the state.
In one form of government, we endow men with the power to rule over the people who collectively elect officials like kings and princes, prime ministers and parliaments or presidents and legislators. If these rulers have the power to take from the people the means by which the public administration of services are provided, then this is not a free government and there will not be a free economy.
In another form of government, the people retain the right to choose the manner and means of support to the government official of their choice. They may be required to support that government to be counted participants[18]. They only relinquish the power over their contribution to the officials of government, but the right to choose the continued flow of support remains with the people.
In this latter form, the people retain rights to choose, and they only endow leaders with the means of serving the people and the right to choose over the manner in which that duty is performed. This form is the only true government of the people, for the people and by the people. For most of man's history, this is the way most governments operated. But our modern understanding of history has been filtered through the advocates of centrally controlled governments.
What of the state and church?
The Church is said to be a religious institution but religion is how we "perform our duty to God and our fellow man". If the state is caring for the people and providing for the needy of society, then there is no separation of Church and state because there is no separation of religion and the state. The state is doing the work of the Church. And the modern Church is merely seducing the people to believe the lie.
The way legal governments work is they bind people together with contracts in legal systems where the government regulates the law. This is not usually done at one point in time, but it is a progressives process.
Governments may offer benefits that are not freely given. They offer these benefits with legal strings attached. In order to provide those benefits, they must take the means from the people and/or borrow those means using the members of their society as surety for the debt.
The Ugly Capitalist
[www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/capitalist.php The Ugly Capitalist]
I am amazed at the number of people that have actually swallowed the idea that there is something wrong with capitalism. I was helping out someone in their home one evening, when they started bad-mouthing capitalism as if it was the cause of the present economic problems.
I know this store keeper to be a hard working individual who has struggled all his life to own his home and business, and he is one who refuses to even accept EBT welfare cards[19] for purchases, because he is disgusted with the sloth and avarice of people today.
While not stopping the work I was doing, I quizzed this college educated individual on what he thought capitalism was. He really did not understand the meaning of the words he was using. He was following an absolutely nescient position, based on the ignorant dialogue coming out of the modern media.
There are so many people that I come across these days who repeat things they have heard without thinking nor understanding what they are saying. One individual wrote, "Capitalism by itself is Fascism." Anyone who thinks that clearly does not know the definition of those two words, and they are often too lazy or prideful to look them up. And when they are shown the truth, they entrench in their confusion, denying the truth.
The definition of capitalism is "an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth."
While the definition of fascism is "a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism."
How are these two isms even compatible? Yet, some people go on with this ignorant dialogue saying "Capitalism mixed with Socialism works well." This would be funny if it did not bear such tragic consequences in a democracy of simple-minded, slothful, self-serving citizen voters.
The definition of fascism according to the World English Dictionary is “any ideology or movement inspired by Italian Fascism, such as German National Socialism...”
So it should be clear, if there is no emotional bigotry or ideological chauvinism, that the truth is fascism and socialism may mix, but capitalism and socialism are opposing views. Even democracy mixes well with socialism, but capitalism cannot be said to mix well with democracy if Karl Marx was right when he claimed “Democracy is the road to socialism.”[20] We see democracy infringing on private ownership today at almost every turn, not because capitalism is a failure but because we have failed to be capitalists.
Capitalism cannot be the problem for several reasons. There has not been true capitalism in America since 1933. The first means of production is the individual right to the fruit of your labor. If the value of your labor can be taken away without just compenstion, you are no longer in a world of capitalism. [21] Or you can go back to 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve and fractional reserve banking [22] which has produced a nation of debt-ism, not capitalism. “Of course debtism[23] leads to despotism[24] which is not the result of capitalism, but rather Capitolism[25] ...”[26] We became socialists a long time ago, and that is why we are failing.
Purpose of Capitalism
Time 5:22
There is no real purpose included in the concept of capitalism.
Capitalism is said to be merely an economic system where the means of production, mostly your labor, belongs to the individual. The individual can use that right to what is produced or gathered for whatever purpose they want or desire, good or bad, moral and immoral, as long as they do not infringe on the rights of others.
Even Mohands (Mahatma) Gandhi writing of Capitalism in the Harijan, Jul. 28, 1940 admitted "Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed."
There is often an insidious Sophistry used to defame capitalism if you find a capitalist doing evil.
When someone points out that communist regimes killed millions of their own people to consumable their systems they proclaim that was "not true communism".
Does not enslave
Capitalism does not rob or kill anyone. If you have a right to your labor and what it produces then everyone else does also. Any usurpation of another individuals right is a departure from capitalism.
Any forced slavery or abuse of another is not capitalism nor the product of it. It is the product of moral or immoral choices of individuals or groups.
In fact, most abuses are the result of collective thinking where power is centralized away from individual rights.
Any centralizing of choices once enjoyed by individuals into the hand of few or even the majority is a departure from capitalism and a roadway to abuse. That is because power, including the power of choice, corrupts.
In an article about King Leopold II's (of Belgium) murder of millions of Congolese, the author "talked about what capitalism did to Africa, [and] all the privileges that rich white people gained from the Congolese genocide.
This article of course was racist, suggesting that whites murder blacks. The truth is, people murder people. If you put people in a position of power over other people, abuse will occur because power corrupts. People were not designed to rule over each other consolidating the power of many in the hands of a few.
Power to rule over your neighbor leads to abuse of power, black, white, red, yellow or green ... it makes no difference. Evil comes in all colors, shapes and nationalities. Some systems lend themselves to that abuse. The ones that centralize power or use power to control others and make them do what they want are cultivating the social DNA of despots and tyrants.
Besides the race distortion in the article, there was another insidious misconception hidden in it, about "capitalism".
The morality of the economic system of Capitalism is entirely dependent upon the people who practice that system.
Not a system
Is capitalism a "system" at all?
Or is it just an element within a variety of different systems or societies that allow a liberty of choice?
The term "system" suggests "a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network" or "a set of principles or procedures according to which something is done; an organized framework or method."
Individuals who accept that their neighboring individuals have a right to their labor and possessions can choose to 'work together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network".
The resulting system may be called a capitalist system but it is the result of choices made by a group of individuals.
Early Israel accepted that a man and woman come together and produce a family gathering possessions to sustain that family unite, and passing the m down to the the next generation through inheritance. These customs would include the essence of capitalism, which is "private ownership of the means of production" their individual labor, possessions, and their inheritance."
Their fundamental guidelines did not allow stealing from, killing or injuring or even coveting any thing that was their neighbors property or possessions.
They created separate systems to ensure a social safety net for the needy of their society and provide for judicial services and courts.
They funded these elements of society through freewill offerings without compelled taxation and no king for centuries.
The even write down rules, statutes, to protect the rights of individuals and their property.
System Departed
Merriam-Webster Dictionary tells us a "system" is 5. "an organized society or social situation regarded as stultifying or oppressive".
Israel had departed from that system in "Egypt" where they did not own the gold and silver that had been in their purse, nor did they own the sole possession of their own labor, a portion belonging to the government of Egypt, nor did they own their live stock which was their original capital, northe lawful title to the lived upon and their children were born servants to the government of Pharaoh.
That "organized society or social situation" was called the bondage of Egypt and there were told they were never to return that way again.[27]
Merriam-Webster Dictionary also defines a "system" as "a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole"
Or:
3. "an organized set of doctrines, ideas, or principles usually intended to explain the arrangement or working of a systematic whole"
Or:
4. "harmonious arrangement or pattern : ORDER"
None of these definition describe Capitalism which simply agrees that you own what you produce with your own labor.
A society or community must add or construct a system around the idea of the private ownership of your labor. These system may declare themselves capitalist system but in fact they may merely contain the element of private ownership.
All the other elements of society like executive, judicial, or legislative are added. Other moral doctrines, arrangement, or pattern are added or neglected to explain the working of a systematic whole.
If critics of capitalism is to be honest they should often describe, if not at least modife, what they call Capitalism with those elements, doctrines or characters.
It is essential for every society to attend to the weightier matters for capitalist to even become a system or a society.
But if that ownership is to be sustained or viable it must be moral. As people desire to prosper they must also labor to wisely share what they produce generously, wisely and graciously otherwise what they produce may end up owning you or be taken by those who do not respect the rights of others.
Without this natural governor of caring about other rights,....
Socialism is both a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates the concept that "individuals" should not have ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange which includes the land, capital (money), or industry, but rather the whole community collectively owns and controls property, goods, and production. This allows the immoral mob to take from others.
It is by it's nature a covetous practice through legalized redistribution of wealth through "force".
Jawaharlal Nehru said "Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself" but Karl Marx said "Democracy is the road to socialism" and "Socialism leads to Communism."
Some like Winston Churchill sees that "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
Margaret Thatcher once said that "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money."
Capitalism is not supposed to provide for the working class, it's a system for the working class to provide for themselves.
Since capitalism is not a social welfare system, apolitical system, nor a judicial system the people will have to formulate those element of society. If the people still have a right to the "private ownership of the means of production" their individual labor, possessions, and their inheritance.
No longer free
If the individual consents to becoming a part of a one purse system of collective ownership forbidden in Proverbs the individual will no longer have their right to the "private ownership of the means of production" that is to say their individual labor, their property and possessions, nor their inheritance. The individual will have less choices, less rights, and less freedom.
"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." Alexis de Tocqueville
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
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"America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance -- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way." AYN RAND, Capitalism: The Unknown Deal
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." Alexis de Tocqueville
"The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?" H. G. Wells
"As with the Christian religion (see Modern Christians), the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. George Orwell
"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight." Theodore Roosevelt
"Society is a republic." Victor Hugo
American Salvation
The same individual who has not bothered with the definition of words like Socialism, Capitalism, Religion, Democracy, Corban etc., has also not bothered with learning history, so they went on to say:
: "Can you imagine what America would look like without Socialism? People wouldn't be trying to come to America. They would be trying to get out of America. The wall on the Mexican border would be to keep people from leaving America."
Statements like this show an absolute ignorance of words and history, which is the result, no doubt, of public school education, which is itself a socialist program that has been around for over 100 years. In early America, millions of people took and accepted the risk and hardships of coming to America when there was virtually no socialism in the country and few public schools, while people have been trying to escape from socialist countries from the beginning of their rise to power.
Why was socialism abandoned in early America?
Because when they tried socialism at New Plymouth and Jamestown, they literally starved to death. John Smith of Jamestown countered the “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” philosophy by proclaiming with confidence and determination the Biblical principle from 2 Thessalonians 3:10, "He who will not work will not eat."[28]
- "The privatization of land, rent free, and an establishment of a free market, resulted in an immediate change in the supply of food, so that by 1614, Ralph Hamor, Colony Secretary, was able to write that there was "plenty of food, which every man by his own industry may easily and doth procure that the poorest there, and most in want, hath not been so much pinched with hunger this four years..."[29]
In New Plymouth, socialism was completely abolished by Bradford.
- “As soon as the settlers were thrown upon their own resources, and each freeman had acquired the right of owning property, the colonists quickly developed what became the distinguishing characteristic of Americans – an aptitude for all kinds of craftsmanship coupled with an innate genius for experimentation and invention.”[30]
The respect for what the individual produces and accumulates with his own labor is the essence of capitalism. It is the move away from those principles of private right over the last century that is bringing down America and the world. It is straying from those natural practices of righteousness through charity instead of government force that is returning the world to poverty. This did not begin with the tyranny of government but with the sloth and avarice of the people.
The pride that allowed the perversion of the word religion and turns the people from the practices of Pure Religion has again corrupted the people. The proud, angry, and self-righteous or those just too lazy to look up the definition of words and not willing to admit they are wrong about socialism and modern Church perpetuate the lie that brings the present strong delusion.
Biblical Capitalism
- "The slothful [man] roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man [is] precious." Proverbs 12:27
Jesus, God and the apostles not only advocated capitalism and the choice of charity it allows, he preached against the principles of socialism, over and over again.
- "And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. 14 And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge[31] or a divider over[32] you? 15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth." Luke 12:13
Jesus was a king and could fire the moneychangers as the porters of the temple. He did not come to take away our right to choose to love and be charitable. He preached a kingdom of righteousness where the people attended to the weightier matters of law and to the needs of each other through charity and the perfect law of liberty.
Jesus preaches the parable of the rich man who builds a storehouse, rather than investing in others. His complaint is not about capitalism and working to have wealth, but the lack of charity exercised in its distribution. [33] Charity must always be a choice, and to desire what others produce, and to create systems that take from your neighbor is the essence of covetousness. Socialism takes away that choice.
From the beginning, it was the ruling Benefactors of the world and the Fathers of the earth like Nimrod and Saul who gained power by the voice of the people, and this was called a "rejection of God" in 1 Samuel 8.
Jesus' message about the treasury where robbers can break through and moth can eat it up,[34] the story of the Golden calf and One purse and messages and commandments about coveting the gifts of Benefactors who use their authority to provide benefits ... all of these direct us toward private ownership and away from controlled socialist states.
Yes, we see Jesus advocating taking care of the needy of society in Matthew 25:34, [35] but He also tells us not to be like the rulers of the other nations who call themselves Benefactors but exercise authority one over the other,[36] specifically telling his apostles that "ye shall not be so".
No one should receive the blessings of charity simply because they are poor. The Bible is clear that the slothful should not be rewarded[37] and the benefits offered by society must strengthen the poor.[38]
No man plants but that he also hopes for an increase. God wants us to increase, but not merely for our own profit but so that we may choose to profit others. [39]
If you look to government powers to fix things you have to give government power. Power corrupts. Centralize power and you centralize corruption. Big government is the centralization of power. Division in power only works if the people get responsible for themselves. Socialism can definitely work but in never works indefinitely.
Jesus teaches what the (His) Kingdom of God is like in Matthew 25:15-18, where you may see capitalism in progress. Each individual is given a certain amount of talents, and if they produce more they are given more. If they produce nothing, they are given less or literally punished.
The "Free Market" does exist in nature. It is called natural selection. Natural selection can be dog eat dog or the predator beast wins, or you can come together and help throw off the beast and defend one another.
In nature, everyone carries their own weight, they fend for themselves and occasionally they come together in herds or what we call 'society' or 'communities'. In order for communities to take back their responsibility and work together, there must be capitalism.
Capitalism works if the people learn to care about one another, starting at the grassroots level. We have not had real Capitalism in this country for almost a hundred years. We need to return to the true definition of Religion, and practice Pure Religion as Christ intended.
Our error did not begin with the advocation of a bad candidate or political party, but it began with our abdication of responsibility, righteousness and love for neighbor. It did not begin with immoral government but an immoral people that need to take stock of what they have been doing, instead of continually doing the same thing, expecting different results.
When we began to desire benefits at our neighbor's expense from public healthcare to public schools ... when our churches began to say it was okay to covet what is your neighbor's, as long as we do it through the agency of government ... when we began to pray for benefits from men who exercise authority one over the other instead of living by faith, hope, and charity, then our fate was sealed and our destiny was etched in our own stony hearts.
No economic system exists in which investment in and ownership of the means of production can be taken away from a private individual, if he does not pay for your desires and finance your benefits. If the distribution of your wealth for funding welfare is done under the pretense of supporting the needy of society, and if the charity of society is not left in the hands of private individuals of society, then there is no capitalism, and you have already started down the road to socialism, despotism and destruction.
The present road we travel as a nation will bring us back to the starvation and deprivation -- to the misery and mayhem of the people of Jamestown and New Plymouth. To walk in the ways of the socialism of this new world order will bring with it a universal want and suffering on an unprecedented scale.
There are solutions which the diligent must pursue and seek if they are going to be free. They must learn to govern themselves and provide a welfare for one another through charity, not force. In other words, they must stop coveting the things that are their neighbor's by asking the men who exercise authority for benefits.[41]
This was the message of Christ and the mission of the Church. Early Christians provided all the social welfare for one another in pure religion[42] despite the free bread and circuses offered by the fathers[43] of the Roman government[44] through its unchristian qorban.[45]
- “The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.” Proverbs 12:24
It is time to repent, taking back our responsibilities to home and hearth, to neighbor and neighborhood, in the name of right and righteousness.[46]
Land ownership
Modern socialists often complain about capitalism suggesting that it cannot exist without the state. This is clearly proven false by history and nature.
Capitalism is the natural practice of creation from the beginning.[4]
Man appears to have been given dominion by God.[47] But that dominion of man over man was not given by God, but it came by men who reject God[48] and who seek to rule over others instead of loving them.
Seeking the Kingdom of God is seeking that dominion. Seeking the righteousness of God is to seek that dominion as a kingdom of righteous practices.
People even go so far in their jealousy that they say defense of capitalism is the defense of the rich, ruling elite and even the crowns of kings. Their envy blinds them to basic definitions of words.
- "Ownership of property may be private, collective, or common, and the property may be of objects, land or real estate ..."Ownership
Man is a creation of God, Corporations are a creation of men.
- "The Crown Estate is a collection of lands and holdings in the United Kingdom belonging to the British monarch as a corporation sole, making it the "Sovereign's public estate", which is neither government property nor part of the monarch's private estate."
- "A corporation sole is a legal entity consisting of a single ("sole") incorporated office, occupied by a single ("sole") natural person. A corporation sole is one of two types of corporation, the other being a corporation aggregate."
Corporate ownership is not private ownership.
- "Capitalism is an economic system based on private ownership, control and operation of the means of production and their beneficial use."
Legal title does not include the beneficial use of property. So a Legal title undermines capitalism.
In the last half of the 1800's some people in Europe -- including the Catholic intelligentsia, who had accumulated vast areas of land held by a corporation sole -- decided to move toward socialism through a process of syndicalism. They formulate an alternative to socialism which would emphasize social justice without the radical solution of the abolition of private property. The result was called Corporatism, which was "the control of a state or organization by large interest groups". The basic idea of corporatism is that the society, its political system, and economy of a country should be organized into major interest groups (sometimes called corporations), and representatives of those interest groups settle any problems through negotiation and joint agreement. variations of corporatism can lead to fascism.
Capitalism does not require the State for "the private ownership, control and operation of the means of production and their beneficial use", It does require that people care about their neighbor's rights as much as their own. That is also essential in the maintaining of a pure republic which always depends upon the practice of Pure Religion for social justice rather than the State. Socialism is the religion you get when you do not practice Pure Religion.
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- ↑ "Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production" "Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned." In these two definitions we see the means is privately owned and what may be produced is also privately owned. A typical definition that shows bias and prejudice departing from individual rights and attempting to demonize capitalism is "capitalism" is "the name for the capitalist mode of production in which the means of production are owned privately by a small class (the bourgeoisie) who profits off the labor of the working class (the proletariat)." Capitalism: A socio-economic system based especially on private ownership of the means of production and the exploitation of the labor force.
- ↑ fictitious capital is "money that is thrown into circulation as capital without any material basis in commodities or productive activity". Fictitious capital could also be defined as "tradeable paper claims to wealth".
- ↑ http://capitalism.org/
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "The squirrel hoards nuts, and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace." The Transcendentalist, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
In truth every squirrel who gathers nuts, every bird that makes its nest and every dung beetle who rolls his dung is a capitalist.
The squirrel will share his nuts with his mate and offspring who unite themselves with other capitalist squirrels who will live in the trees that grew up from the nuts their grandfather deposited in the bank of the Forrest floor generations before. None of that involved usury nor greed nor envy. - ↑ "That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities" Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.)
- ↑ Leviticus 19:36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- Proverbs 16:11 A just weight and balance are the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism
- ↑ See Employ vs Enslave, http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/gods/cog4eve.php
Audio http://keysofthekingdom.info/COG-04.mp3
SS Video Series 7-10 7:28 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuz-hFKM_Ts - ↑ Chapter 11. of the book The Covenants of the gods, Money vs Mammon
http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/gods/cog11movma.php
Mammon, NN Video Series:3-10 4:22 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG5sp5bCpSc - ↑ “Debtism is the formal name given to debt-driven capitalism, also known as false capitalism--a system in operation since 1933 until 2010.” http://one-spirit-tribe.org/covenant/one_spirit_1160.htm
- ↑ Proverbs 22:26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
- ↑ "Capitolism is an ironic reference to an economy in which market forces are subsumed to political interests in Washington. The term is derived from Karl Marx's term for a private enterprise-based economy, Capitalism, and the name of the building in which the U.S. Congress meets -- the Capitol."
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Capitolism - ↑ Understanding “American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen.” Grover Cleveland Annual Message Dec., 1885. we should take a look at our own part in the covetous events of 1933.
- ↑ Occupying the Chessboard of the Dialectic
http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/dialectic.php - ↑ Jury Nullification
- ↑ http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/ThatWord3jurynwv.php
- ↑ Numbers 7:5 Take [it] of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.
- ↑ A participant in a pure republic is a citizen because they have given up power over a thing contributed, rather than over themselves.
- ↑ Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) is an electronic system that allows state welfare departments to issue benefits via a magnetically encoded payment card, used in the United States and the United Kingdom, like Rome did with their Tesserae.
- ↑ Democracy, From the book The Higher Liberty, Sec. 14 http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/THL/democracy.php
- ↑ Understanding “American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen.” Grover Cleveland Annual Message Dec., 1885. We should take a look at our own part in the covetous events of 1933. See Employ vs Enslave, http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/gods/cog4eve.php Audio http://keysofthekingdom.info/COG-04.mp3 SS Video Series 7-10 7:28 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuz-hFKM_Ts
- ↑ Chapter 11. of the book The Covenants of the gods, Money vs Mammon http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/gods/cog11movma.php Mammon, NN Video Series:3-10 4:22 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG5sp5bCpSc
- ↑ “Debtism is the formal name given to debt-driven capitalism, also known as false capitalism--a system in operation since 1933 until 2010.” http://one-spirit-tribe.org/covenant/one_spirit_1160.htm
- ↑ Proverbs 22:26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
- ↑ "Capitolism is an ironic reference to an economy in which market forces are subsumed to political interests in Washington. The term is derived from Karl Marx's term for a private enterprise-based economy, Capitalism, and the name of the building in which the U.S. Congress meets, the Capitol." http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Capitolism
- ↑ Occupying the Chessboard of the Dialectic
http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/dialectic.php - ↑ Deuteronomy 17:16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, ... Ye shall henceforth return no more that way."
- ↑ From Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen. A Patriot's History of the United States (New York: Penguin Group, 2004), 17.
- ↑ The Jamestown adventure: accounts of the Virginia colony, 1605-1614 edited by Ed Southern p. 199
- ↑ Virginia, the Old Dominion, Volume 1, by Matthew Page Andrews, Dietz Press, 1949, p61
- ↑ 1348 ~δικαστής~ dikastes \@dik-as-tace’\@ from a derivative of 1349; ; n m AV-judge 3; 3 1) a judge, arbitrator, umpire
- ↑ 3312 ~μεριστής~ meristes \@mer-is-tace’\@ from 3307; ; n m AV-divider 1; 1 1) a divider 1a) of an inheritance
- ↑ Luke 12:33a, 34 Sell that ye have, and give alms; ... For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
- ↑ Matthew 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Matthew 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
- Luke 12:33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
- ↑ Matthew 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
- ↑ Luke 22:25 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. 26 But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. 27 For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth. 28 Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. 29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;
- ↑ 2 Thessalonians 3:6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly [also translated "walking in idleness"], and not after the tradition which he received of us. 7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; 8 Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: 9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us. 10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. 12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. 13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
- Ephesians 4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
- James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
- ↑ Ezekiel 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
- ↑ 2 Corinthians 9:6 ¶ But this [I say], He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. 2 Corinthians 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, [so let him give]; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. 8 And God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to every good work:
- ↑ Richard John Neuhaus, 1936 – 2009, prominent American clergyman.
- ↑ Luke 22:25 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; see also Matthew 20:25, Mark 10:42. and all the places it says to not covet but to love.
- ↑ Pure Religion, What is it and who does it? http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/religion.php
- ↑ Call no man Father, What was Christ trying to tell us about fathers on the earth?
http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/fatherabba.php - ↑ Rome vs US, Does history repeat itself because man does not repent?
http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/romeus.php - ↑ http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/corban.php#sdfootnote18sym
- ↑ Join us in your area http://www.hisholychurch.org/network/index.php
- ↑ Genesis 1:26 ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- ↑ See 1 Samuel 8, Cain, Nimrod, etc.
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