All political systems are ultimately the expression of some underlying philosophy.
This is the ideological basis upon which the United States of America was implicitly founded. Through upholding individual rights, capitalism recognizes the fact the each and every human being must use his own mind to grasp reality and act accordingly to better his own life. Indeed, individual rights and capitalism not only protect the individual person and property of each human being, but most importantly, they protect the individual mind of every human being. Historically speaking, capitalism has been claimed to be consistent with philosophies such as Utilitarianism, social Darwinism, and even fundamentalist Christianity. In fact, the only philosophy that is completely consistent with the theoretical requirements for understanding and promoting capitalism is the philosophy of Objectivism.