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To: DIRTYSECRET

For a trump cheerleader it’s a surprisingly on target article. You are ignorant of the basic tenets of classical capitalism. There are, of course, capitalists who were slavers but slavery violates the basic tenets of capitalism.

Private ownership of the means of production
Free markets
Profit motive
Voluntary exchange
Capital accumulation
and
Consumer sovereignty


53 posted on 04/19/2025 11:28:28 AM PDT by pacific_waters
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To: pacific_waters

**There are, of course, capitalists who were slavers but slavery violates the basic tenets of capitalism.**

They weren’t capitalists then. Contradiction.


55 posted on 04/19/2025 11:59:45 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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