Antitrust regulation killed Pan American World Airways by forbidding it from acquiring domestic routes. Most Americans have never heard of any of these facts because they have been fed the Official History of antitrust, which is that free markets are a source of monopoly power which must be restrained by enlightened antitrust regulators. The truth, however, is that antitrust either puts successful businesses out of business or seriously harms their growth. Along with the companies under attack, consumers become the ultimate victims, along with the health of the nation s economy. It was Stalin who ordered the murder of Leon Trotsky who fled Russia after he took control.
Capitalism is about the right to own private property.
Under communism, the state owns everything, including the people. Consider now, the differences between communist nations and ours. When the Soviet Union crashed, Western observers were astonished to find a society decades out of date technologically. Today, Cuba looks like a run-down 1950 s movie set, a place frozen in time from the period when capitalism was abandoned for socialism. We now know that the Clinton administration had made up its mind to return Elian Gonzalez to this hellhole just shortly after he was saved from a fate that claimed his mother, seeking freedom and opportunity for her son.