Free markets and capitalism are not the same. You cannot have property rights without a governing body and enforcement.
By definition capitalism is free markets. Some elements of capitalism is not capitalism, it's corruption
Jeff Booth: #Bitcoin is the First Global Free Market Ever Created
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rocbAx5M-6Q
Saifedean Ammous: Capitalism is Humanity's Superpower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khvh947w9-M
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The definition of capitalism is free markets. You cannot have property unless you can defend it.
You cannot have property if a government or any person or group can take it.
I agree an ideal government should protect property rights/free markets and the best ones do and have more than others.
All governments have arbitrarily confiscated their citizens property (not freedom/a free market/capitalism). We've never lived under a free market/capitalist society as Booth mentions above.
The closest governments to it, the ones that protect property most, the most capitalist/free market governments have produced the most prosperity and progress for humanity.
See Austrian economics: Mises, Hayek, Hoppe, Rothbard, Friedman is his late years, Booth, Ammous
Correct, you cannot have free markets unless YOU are willing to defend it. Once you socialize protection, and regulation there of, it is no longer a free market.
I have read all of those.
Have you read Joseph Schumpeter and Adam Smith?