“... the point/question is if Capitalism needs to have it’s proponents use force to stamp out other ideas (namely Communism).”
If someone intends to enslave you by force, do you think you can reason your way out of it by talking about it?
>> “... the point/question is if Capitalism needs to have it’s proponents use force to stamp out other ideas (namely Communism).”
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> If someone intends to enslave you by force, do you think you can reason your way out of it by talking about it?
Again, you aren’t addressing the question; furthermore, the question you raise is independent of the economic system.
Again, what prompted my question (in post 36) was the sentiment in Post 3:
“That said, yes, I’m sure the CIA has acted out-of-line a few times but Communism did have to be contained.”
Reformulated, the question is this:
Does capitalism need its proponents to crush communism’s supporters in the marketplace of ideas, using “political correctness” for ideologies we like?
The followup question is this:
Does “defending against Communism” justify the government acting contrary the constraints imposed by the Constitution?
(If so, why? Moreover, what other ideological entities justify contraconstitutional actions?)