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What Is Capitalism?

James Valliant, Don Watkins

Presented at: Discussing Ayn Rand's Essays

Date: Feb 24, 2021

It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man’s nature—the connection between his survival and his use of reason—that capitalism recognizes and protects.
Ayn Rand, “What is Capitalism?”

In this essay, Ayn Rand presents the most meticulous and cogent introduction, explanation and defence of capitalism perhaps ever written, grounding it in a complete and integrated philosophical system.

Join us in our upcoming discussion, with James Valliant and Don Watkins, as we explore this essay, and how her approach to capitalism—and politics and economics at large—differs from that of other advocates of capitalism.

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