Die Havard-Konferenz mit dem vielsagigen Titel “The Free Market Mindset: History, Psychology, and Consequences”, deren Basisprämisse scheinbar war, dass Kapitalisten und andere Proponenten freier Märkte geisteskrank seien¹ , hat nun das letzte Wochenende statt gefunden.

Eine schöne Antwort auf die Annahme, Kapitalisten seien geistesgestört (resp. Schweine, Nazis, dumm, böse, krank, irr etc.), liefert nun Thomas E. Woods:

People who believe in the market economy support a social order in which free individuals make voluntary contracts with each other, and no one can initiate physical force against anyone else. Is that vision so obviously unattractive that we have to refer its supporters for psychological evaluation?

We might instead wonder at the psychological condition of those who would denounce such a system: might they be motivated, for all their noble talk, by nothing but base envy of those with more material wealth than they, or by a pathological desire to dominate other people?²

1. ars libertatis – War on Drugs; Libertarismus als Geisteskrankheit; Tödlicher Umweltschutz; Tanzschritte [↩]
2. Thomas E. Woods, Jr. – Supporters of Capitalism Are Crazy, Says Harvard [↩]