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Capitalism: Is There a Moral Alternative?

Friday, November 12, 2004 at 8:00pm
USC Campus: SGM 123

After roughly 250 years of capitalism, 80 years of socialism and millennia of statism more broadly, the historical verdict is in. Capitalism, the system of individual rights, has wrought vastly greater freedom and prosperity than has ever previously existed in the world. Whether in Western Europe, North America, or the Asian Tigers, the system of individual rights has protected citizens freedom of speech, of intellectual expression, of the press, of religion and of the right to own property and seek profit. Not surprisingly, such freedom of the human mind has led to the highest general living standards of human history by whole orders of magnitude. The system of individual rights and limited government must be implemented in 3rd World nations for them to overthrow political oppression and rise out of the resultant destitution.

In this debate, Dr. Peter Robertson of USC's School of Policy, Planning, and Development will argue against Dr. Andrew Berstein of the Ayn Rand Institute. Dr. Robertson will attempt to criticize capitalism and provide a supposed "moral alternative".

(description from the USC Objectivist Club)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

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