If not quibbling over terminology, this is an excellent article.
Forbes
Tim Worstall
Aug. 26, 2016
Excerpt:
This incident is not one to make fun of - Rodolfo Illanes, a government minister, has been beaten to death by striking miners. That’s not something to joke about. And yet it’s worth pointing out what the miners are actually striking against: socialism. They want the right to work with capitalist companies, the one and very thing which the government is determined they should not be allowed to do. There is of course a simple solution here which is that there should be a free market. No, not just the free market in who may buy and sell what, but a free market in which forms of organisation should be used to do what. This is something which we already allow – people can set up an organisation upon whatever lines they like. We do rule out slavery, child labor and so on, but other than that you can set up a socialist organisation, a cooperative, one owned by the workers, the customers, whatever you wish, as well as the more capitalist idea of a limited company with outside shareholders.
Those striking Bolivian miners are doing so for the freedom which we already possess. And why shouldn’t they also have said freedom?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/08/26/bolivarian-miners-kill-government-minister-in-protest-against-socialism/#821809663563Worstall is right. In the U.S., up until recent times, we have been free to act individually or collectively at our whim or will.
