>Slavery was a great capitalist concept. I wonder why they ever did away with it? Slavery was run by wealthy people. It should have been respected.
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>Slavery is rooted in mindsets that totally conflict with the concept of a free market and individual rights.
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>State-sponsored slavery, apartheid....they're all forms of ethnic and racial socialism.
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>The greatest power in a free or even semi-free market is the middle class, a concept that goes all the way back to Aristotle.

Maybe you can 'splain me some things...

If slavery is totally in conflict with the concept of a "free market", how come slaves were sold at the market square in towns in "free countries"?
If individual rights and the free market are so tightly related, how come women only got to vote in the 1920s and blacks in the 1960s? And why was it that only white male property owners were originally the only ones allowed to vote? And why was it that laws were enacted to prevent any one or any firm from "cornering the market"? And why can an employer fire someone for what they do on their own personal time?

What is "ethnic socialism"?... And "racial socialism"?

What is a semi-free market?
Is the "middle class" that group of people between the wealthy and the homeless/dispossessed?
Is one "middle class" if they have $10,000 in credit card debt and a $125,000. mortgage and they've lost their health insurance due to employer cut-backs and a family member takes gravely ill and the bills add up to $150,000 and are still adding up? Is that person still "free" in every sense of the word?
Why is it the wealthy that suck money-related 'favors' out of government and demand tax breaks on everything when they can easily fend for themselves?

Finally, did Aristotle employ a slave to write those things down for him?

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>Kevin