{"id":21515,"date":"2013-06-10T18:31:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T01:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=21515"},"modified":"2013-06-10T18:32:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T01:32:13","slug":"capitalism-is-not-imperialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/capitalism-is-not-imperialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitalism Is NOT Imperialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/imperial.png\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/5wy4Sigqd3A\" target=\"_blank\">LearnLiberty<\/a> | Although many conflate capitalism and imperialism or think the two systems are closely connected, they are actually quite different, even at odds with one another. Capitalism is a system based on voluntary exchanges that benefit all of the parties involved. In contrast, imperialism is based on exploiting the poor through political power and military force. Prof. Stephen Davies shows that capitalism has been blamed through the years for a number of catastrophes\u2014such as political corruption, exploitation of the poor, mass famines, and others\u2014that were in fact a result of imperialism.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"left\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5wy4Sigqd3A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/5wy4Sigqd3A\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/5wy4Sigqd3A<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"left\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LearnLiberty | Although many conflate capitalism and imperialism or think the two systems are closely connected, they are actually quite different, even at odds with one another. Capitalism is a system based on voluntary exchanges that benefit all of the parties involved. In contrast, imperialism is based on exploiting the poor through political power and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[295],"tags":[1192,1288],"class_list":["post-21515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","tag-capitalism","tag-imperialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}