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Anti-Capitalistic Myths
You show me a capitalist, I'll show you a bloodsucker.Anti-Capitalism Myths Demolished! Myth: Children are exploited under Capitalism--Malcom X
One common objection to personal liberty and it's economic corollary, a regime of Laissez-faire capitalism, is that there could be no laws prohibiting child labour.
The assumption is that child labour is such a terrible thing that tolerating it is simply inconceivable. This is, of course, pure nonsense.
Depending on the economic conditions at any given place and/or time child labour can mean the difference between life and death. Laws which prohibit child labour in such a matrix effectively sentence their victims to death.
Myth: Without aggression funded ( ie: government ) schools only the rich would get an education.
According to Louis Rukeyser's Business Almanac, (Copyright 1991,1988), about $377.8 billion dollars was spent for education in America's schools. A few pages later Rukeyser mentions a 1986 study by the U.S. Department of Commerce which "found that some 17 million Americans, or about 13% of adults, were illiterate." Hmmmm.
Back in 1850 the census reported about 20 percent illiteracy amongst adult southern whites, only 3% in the middle states and as low as 1% in New England.
Things haven't changed much have they? In fact, looking at the literacy rates in the north before the states and federal governments got heavily involved in education suggests things have indeed gotten worse! So why is the government still playing such a large role in education?
Do we really need government schools?
by Clark Nardinelli
takes another look at child labour during the industrial revolution and concludes that it was not the scourge that the myth would have us believe.
Hardcover/Published by Indiana Univ Pr/Publication date: September 1990
Would rich kids be the only ones getting an education if school and state were separated?
Find some answers in:
Education and the State ;E.G. West; Hardcover
Education and the State : A Study in Political Economy ; E. G. West; Paperback
Education and the State : A Study in Political Economy ; E.G. West; Hardcover
Still think we need socialized education? Then read
Separating School & State : How to Liberate America's Families ; Sheldon Richman; Hardcover
Separating School & State : How to Liberate America's Families ; Sheldon Richman; Paperback
Myth:
Laissez-faire
capitalism in the Nineteenth century led to the domination of the U.S. economy
by a bunch of ruthless and greedy Robber Barons.
Burton W. Folsom disagrees.
The Myth of the Robber Barons ; Burton W. Folsom; Hardcover
Also by Burton W. Folsom:
Entrepreneurs Vs. the State ; Burton W. Folsom; Hardcover
The Spirit of Freedom : Essays in American History ; Burton W. Jr. Folsom; Paperback
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