Capitalism is not the cause of any problems we humans face today. In fact, it is arguably the solution to all of them. Capitalism ensures your rights and your freedom. It serves you. Capitalism is the only socio-economic system that says that men are free! Capitalism is fundamentally opposed to slavery and to war. It ended the global slave trade in the 19th century and led to 100 years of international peace from 1812 to 1914. Allow me to explain why capitalism is not the problem, but the solution to the fundamental problems.

Are we free?

Like many men, I always wanted to live on my own land, to create and build a home. I was fortunate to inherit a beautiful piece of land and so I moved on and set about the business of growing organic food and raising my family.

It wasn’t long before the government showed up and told me I needed permission to live as I did, on my own land. Being familiar with the planning system and the justification for it, I wasnt trying to break rules, I wasnt even wanting to build a house! Only live in some temporary structures. I wondered by what reasoning (if any) the state presumed that I need ask for its permission. If a man owns property, why can he not use it as he sees fit, and dwell upon it? Without a contract, how can an organisation, a legal entity, an administrative body, claim to have legitimate control over a man?

Having been told all my life that I was living in a free country, I wanted to test this claim to see if it were true. I was living in a nest of 4 yurts with my wife and two children. The yurts are tent like temporary structures based on a design originating in Mongolia.

When the nice men from the government invited me to apply to them for permission, I agreed to perform any alleged obligation upon proof of legitimate claim. In other words I said, “I will on the condition that you prove that I am lawfully obliged to”. But the court would not discuss the issue of jurisdiction and dismissed the idea of proof of claim. They would not/could not ‘hear’ the issue. My case was crushed without consideration and I was forced to leave my home and my land.

It seems that like free range chickens we are free to roam only so far, and as long as we don’t attempt to leave the farm… In England today, men and women do not have the right to dwell upon their own land without the specific granting of government permission to do so via the planning legislation.

The point here is the presumption of jurisdiction. The presumption is that government has legitimate authority over peaceful men; that the legal pile of paperwork, the idea, the concept of a government can have authority over a flesh and blood living entity. This has implications that contradict the notion of our freedom. The actions of the court demonstrated the implicit assumption it was acting upon. The government acts on the same assumptions when it initiates the use of force against men who have committed no crime. Both demonstrate the defacto relationship between peaceful men and government.

So here in England, although there are many benefit privileges we still currently enjoy, the fact remains that men are ultimately subservient to the state. Fine words tell of government service to the people, but actions to the contrary demonstrate otherwise. I was threated with imprisonment and further fines if I did not move out of my home. The rights of men are in second place to the needs of the state. This is the thin end of the wedge of slavery.

Why bother with freedom, not everyone wants it

Personal introspection tells us that we want to be free. Who wants their life micro-managed by someone else? worse still by some authority?

On the surface, no one wants to do as others command them in the most literal sense. We all know we like to choose how to spend our time. But deeper in the human psyche some people are happy to b...