Language is Capitalism

The free market begins with free speech

Our love of capitalism comes so easily because it's ingrained in our language and culture: the exercise of free speech itself is a market exchange.   

Capitalism, then, corresponds to how we, as lovers of free speech, experience and enjoy the world around us.

And in an expansive world with a seemingly unlimited number of interesting and accessible market actors -- i.e. people to talk to -- this makes the thrill of capitalism and the skillful command of language all the more exciting.

This explains why socialists are adamantly against teaching people how to read, think, and speak, for themselves.

The capitalist thrill of being a masterful communicator would free people of the illiterate mind shackles of the socialist system. 

This is because in socialism there is no speech -- just people mouthing government catechisms while privately grousing about their tyrannical government.  Accordingly in socialist countries their barren markets reflect the intellectual, moral, and spiritual impoverishment of their speech regime.  

For this reason socialist bureaucrats hate free speech.  Free speech enriches the minds and wallets of most Americans. And this great enrichment empowers people to view wealth redistribution as an affront to their dignity and censorship as a threat to their liberty.

Socialists want to eliminate this righteous sense of dignity and liberty by destroying capitalism through destroying free speech.  In their mind a silent world is a socialist world.

And when the day comes upon us, as it gradually appears to be, it will be the socialist silence that echoes across the world in poverty, stupidity, and violence. 

Zigmund Reichenbach holds a M.A. in Philosophy from West Chester University.  You can find him commenting on news stories of national and state interest at his Facebook page Zigmund Reichenbach -- Commentator or you can follow him on Twitter @zreichenbach1.  Additionally you can find episodes of the weekly Sunday podcast that airs via Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter at this link here. 

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