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title = Trent Horn, Capitalism, and Socialism
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title = Trent Horn, Capitalism, and Socialism
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description = I'm overall a big fan of Horn and his work, particularly in Christian and Pro-Life Apologetics, but I find that when it comes to the questions of Capitalism and Socialism he requires more robust definitions so as to avoid errors and strawman arguments.
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description = I'm overall a big fan of Horn and his work, particularly in Christian and Pro-Life Apologetics, but I find that when it comes to the questions of Capitalism and Socialism he requires more robust definitions so as to avoid errors and strawman arguments.
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@ -44,12 +44,24 @@ video Mr. Horn starts by recognizing that Capitalism is a term coined by
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Socialists, and most notably influenced by Karl Marx, and goes on to equivocate
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Socialists, and most notably influenced by Karl Marx, and goes on to equivocate
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Capitalism with Free Markets, saying that this is what he defends. The issue is
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Capitalism with Free Markets, saying that this is what he defends. The issue is
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that this definition is actually much too broad, and therefore would actually
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that this definition is actually much too broad, and therefore would actually
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end up encompassing forms of Socialism that we have mentioned earlier! What's
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end up encompassing forms of Socialism that we have mentioned earlier. What's
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more, if this is your definition of Capitalism, then truly Capitalism has
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more, if this is your definition of Capitalism, then truly Capitalism has
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existed since the very beginnings of human trade & commerce. Yet, if Mr.
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existed since the very beginnings of human trade & commerce. Yet, if Mr.
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Horn acknowledges that the term is of Socialist origin, would it not make sense
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Horn acknowledges that the term is of Socialist origin, would it not make sense
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to use its Socialist meaning, especially when trying to explain it in relation
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to use its Socialist meaning, especially when trying to explain it in relation
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to Socialism?</p>
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to Socialism? For Marx, we could say that Capitalism is a socio-economic system
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which tends towards the accumulation of capital (i.e. means of production),
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concentrated in the hands of a class of Capitalists, while the rest
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(Proletarians) are forced to sell their labour. Taking this into consideration,
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we can see that this does not include Market Socialism, and at the same time it
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also means that there are possible free market economies which are neither
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Socialist nor Capitalist (e.g. Feudalism, Distributism, etc.).</p>
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<p>Taking this into consideration, I believe that Mr. Horn should reconsider the
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definitions he's using. For in using a very restrictive definition of Socialism,
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he leaves out models of Socialism, and in using a broad definition of
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Capitalism, he includes forms of Socialism as well as other economic systems
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which are not strictly Capitalist. Overall, his definitions cause confusion.</p>
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<h3>Notes</h3>
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<h3>Notes</h3>
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