Ask Dr. Helen: How Can I Keep My Students From Becoming Little Marxists?
Not that it’s the topic, but perhaps Steve J could enlighten us as to why an advocacy of capitalism is “delusional.” Is it delusional to suppose it’s both possible and desirable for individuals to respect property rights and engage in voluntary trade? Is it delusional to
believe that humans possess volition, are capable of reasoning, can pursue their self-interest without injuring, indeed by trading with others fairly, and that they can create and live in a society in which individual rights are defined and protected by limited government?
That was the norm, after all, for much of the 19th century in millions of interactions and transactions (though far from all, certainly). Is it delusional to believe that people like J.J. Hill, Henry Ford, and others were good men, highly productive, not to say ingenious? If that is delusional then, by all means, tell us what the real world is necessarily ‘really’ like. Us psychotics really want to know.
