Commerce is what happens under Capitalism. You can't have one without the other
Actually what I am talking about is free market economics. Marx come with the word capitalism, gave some bogus definition and then trashed it.
Marx's hatred of the free market has permeated our culture and people with no clue what the free market is just continue to trash it.
The irony is that all of the crimes of humanity that capitalism is alleged to cause are actually caused by Marxism. Income inequality is worse under communism that any other economic system ever devised by man. The rich power elites get richer and every one else lives in abject poverty. Communism brother, fascism, lightens slightly the control over businesses but allowing business owners and employees to keep their jobs but this creates a destructive alliance between business and government. The government still controls the means of production, they just allow business owners to share a little bit in the money stolen from the people. Communism just throws the business owners out and replaced them with "experts".
The free market is the free exchange of goods and/or services. Nothing else.
A truly free market can only exist in anarchy because there is no government to interfere with the exchange. However, a very small and limited government, like ours used to be, can create pretty close to the same amount of prosperity as a anarchistic market.
The freer the market the wealthier all people become. Combine that with morality and you have the United States of America in its first 100 years. Take the slavery that we once had out of the equation and you'll see prosperity like no civilization has ever seen before
Do you know what capitalism is? It is the free exchange of goods and/or services. It is just buying and selling, nothing more and nothing less. That's why it can never be killed because people will always exchange items, even if it is a barter system.
So please explain to me how my buying groceries is tyranny?
