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     9 years ago (edited)

    The market isn't free if you are demanding that I give you something in return for your goods, if the market were that you give me goods and my own moral standard says I must reciprocate, that would be a free market.

    No, it wouldnt be a free market. It wouldnt be a market at all, since a market requires some sort of mutual agreement for exchange.

    In the term free market, "free" doesnt mean "free or charge", it means that neither side of a transaction is forced or compelled to enter into that transaction against his will. (ie free in the sense of not enslaved or forced).

    What youre describing is a system where you get to take whatever you want from someone who produces something, whether he wants to give it to you or not, and give him in return whatever your "moral standard" determines is appropriate.

    That's called slavery.

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     9 years ago 

    The market isn't free if you are demanding that I give you something in return for your goods, if the market were that you give me goods and my own moral standard says I must reciprocate, that would be a free market.

    If you take the time to read those books in my posts it will help with your database that you draw from.
    I really didn't understand why the older anarchists wanted to smash crapitalism until I read the books.

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