Free Market Capitalism (Pro) vs Statist Communism (Con)

This is a bit confusing since my opponent just posted my wrdsthen commented on them without using italics, quotations, or even spaces to distinguish the text!THE GOVERONMENT IN A FREE MARKETMy opponent makes the mistake of thinking that once the goveronment gets involved in the market it is no longer free, but this is not the case. Enable for the market to be free to compete, there only needs to be:a). property rightsb). more than one company producing agiven commodityc). the decentralisation of power amongst these companiesThe goveronment has one purpose and one purpose only- to preserve the liberties of the people, so if some corporation poisons the water supply, it should be illegal for them to do that, just as if I took a dump in the local reservoir I would be arrrested. Ulitimatey the goveronments job should be to prevent companies from exploiting people in a way that violates their liberties. Then he misinterprets my words by saying:"'This is why we enforced the minimum wage, because the government thought that private individuals couldn't help but pay their employees a starvation wage, thus the government is much better at determining morality than individuals (even though during the 20th Century individuals killed 8.5 million and the state killed 262 million),' and has therefore affirmed a government run system over the Free Market."I was representing this idea of yours, not saying it was true- the goveronment is not any more capable of determining morality than you or me, and it certainly isn't more capale of protecting the environment than the private sector as the liberals and communists would have us believe. Like I said before, the state is actually amongst the most immoral forms of institutions ever- during the 20th Century it killed 262 million as opposed to a mere 8.5 million by individuels, this is a clear indication that the state is actually morally impaired. And as to environmental protections, the goveronment has actually been among the largest pollutors in the world, the EPA recently dumped toxic waste into a river, and Bernie Sanders authorsed abill to dump toxic waste onto a low income community near the Mexican border. {2}So yes- we need more and stricter regulations on the goveronment and on the politicians, because they do not know what they are doing. REGARDING SELF EMPLOYMENT"My opponent mentions working from home, but you need money to be able to do that. Making a company isn't much better, as you inevitably become a part of the Free Market, doing whatever it takes to turn a profit."First of all, it will always take capitol to practice a trade, it's just that in capitalism we use "money" as a medium of exchange to represent this capitol. So really no matter what it takes those same recources to work from home, we just call it "money," but really you need physcal, tangible, resources, not money- and this isn't going to change if we switch to communism. Second of all, being part of the free market isn't bad, and being able to earn a profit (since this is a liberty granted to man by their creator), does not turn you into some greedy sociopath who 'does anything he needs to to turn a profit.' PEOPLE PREFER COLLECTIVISM?My opponent states that people will automatically default to a collective society, but this just isn't the case, and for the same reason that most of toddlers first or second word will be "mine." People are greedy, and will pursue wealth, and there's nothing wrong with that- IF it is done in an honest and respectable way by offering a quality good or service to the markets. THE PRODUCT OF LABORLet's put it this way- in communism all of the profits of your work go to the welfare state and to the goveronment, whereas in capitalism it all belongs to you, save if you work for someone elsae in which case a small portion of it goes to some capitalist who makes money off of increasing the productive powers of labor and bettering the quality of living of the nation overall- what a terrible person he is. He also mistakes globalism for capitalism:"By removing currency, as a communist system wishes to do, people could be free to pursue the occupation of their choice, and increasing productivity. In addition, in a Free Market Economy, a worker might work $0.25-$7 an hour to make a Laptop, however, the worker would be unable to purchase such a device, thus alienating them from the product of their labor, and isolating them from the enjoyment obtained from such a device."This can be solved by ending the outsourcing of jobs to foreign nations and charging corporations a tarrif of 35% if they produce their goods overseas. In this way corporations will be forced to compete for a limited number f resourcesand consumers, and thus would restore the free market. Now, globalism can co-exist with capitalism, capitalism itself doesn't abolish globalism, but capitalism isn't the cause of this issue, that's globalism. The state can just as easily exportjobs to foreigners in China or South Africa in a communist society. So capitalism cannot be blamed for this, you must blame globalism. CONCLUSIONThe difference between Free Market Capitalism and Communism is that, in capitalism, an individuel is allowed to work for himself and own property, whilst in communism this is left to the state. Thus, the notion of communism relies on the fallacy that the state is somehow more morally inclined than the individuel, or more responsible than the individuel, or that individuels are incapable of caring for themselves and thus the goveronment needs to govern their lives. "I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peacibly and liberally inclined than their governments." - Franklin Roosevelt"Any man that thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer lookat the Native American." - Henry Ford"No one spends someone elses money as responsibly as he spends his own." - Milton Friedman {1}. http://www.cnn.com... {2}. http://bluenationreview.com...