Today, I saw this post on Facebook:
I've seen so many like it in my time... here's another one:
Finally, I felt prompted to make the little Venn Diagram that you see above. Almost every single person I see who criticizes capitalism proves in their critique that they have no idea what capitalism really is.
Pure capitalism is when market forces are allowed to work freely without violence, or state intervention. Many (if not most) of the criticisms I see of capitalism are actually criticisms of government. These critiques often come from the same people who want more and more government to solve their problems.
If only I could get them to see the fallacies in their statements... we might actually end up on the same team!