Anti-Capitalist Fallacies
Three recurring errors can weaken an argument before the real debate even begins.
This series asks three diagnostic questions: What are we actually defining? What caused the outcome? And compared with what real alternative?
Anti-Capitalist Fallacy #1
Question: Are you looking at capitalism from 30,000 feet while leaving the individual out of view?
Anti-Capitalist Fallacy #2
Question: What actually caused the problem?
Anti-Capitalist Fallacy #3: Comparing Capitalism to an Imaginary Alternative
Question: Compared with what?
For the broader debate, continue with Why Socialism Fails and Capitalism Wins or the Capitalism vs. Socialism Reading Path.