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For example, Venezuela, while not a perfect country before Hugo Chavez, had freedom and wealth unprecedented in its history. As Chavez has nationalized industries, he has also centralized power, and become a virtual dictator.
For example, Venezuela, while not a perfect country before Hugo Chavez, had freedom and wealth unprecedented in its history. As Chavez has nationalized industries, he has also centralized power, and become a virtual dictator.
Non-captialist societies also tend to be [[atheism|atheistic]] (Russia) or Intolerent religious societies (Iran).
Non-capitalist societies also tend to be [[atheism|atheistic]] (Russia) or Intolerent religious societies (Iran).
== Quotes ==
“Historical evidence speaks with a single voice on the relation between political freedom and a free market. I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political freedom, and that has not also used something comparable to a free market to organize the bulk of economic activity.”
--[[Milton Friedman]], Capitalism and Freedom, 1962.
“Capitalism is essentially the economic system of poor people. That’s what allowed the people that came from humble origins of the world to have economic rights the way only nobility and the high bourgeoisie had it before. So capitalism is essentially a tool for poor people to prosper.”
--Hernando de Soto, PBS Interview, March 30-31, 2001
(cf: [http://www.americansolutions.com/General/?Page=026a3bda-755c-45d8-84d3-c68eef294612 Values - Free Enterprise])
"The only real cure for poverty is production". Henry Hazlitt, from Man vs. the Welfare State.
== See also ==
== See also ==
*[[Capital]]
*[[Capital]]
*[[Free Enterprise]]
==References==
==References==