Talk:Capitalism Magazine

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Wikipedia is not a web directory... please delete.

This is not part of a web directory, this is an encyclopedia article on a notable pro-capitalism organization. Dietary Fiber

WTF? Why isn't it capitalisim.com? Tannin

lol Dietary Fiber

It seems that we would need an actual article that describes the views expressed on/by "Capitalism.org" and in their publication "Capitalism Magazine". Quotes can be nice but what is Capitalsm.org about? -- Mic

Articles should be a majority of our own work. Listing a dozen quotes from a website while having but one original sentence does not a wiki-article make. Therefore, I deleted the "statements by capitalism.org." I also removed the Ayn Rand reference. I realize her connection to neo-liberal thinkers, but what exactly is her connection with capitalism.org? Kingturtle 20:09 Apr 27, 2003 (UTC)

If you'd take a few minutes to look at the site, you'd see its 90% about Ayn Rand. 172.172.13.108

Then this article should discuss Capitalism.org's stance on Ayn Rand and why Capitalism.org is interested in her. Kingturtle 01:22 May 13, 2003 (UTC)

Sure, it should, but its a work in progress. 172.141.178.53

capitalism.org reads like a parody site. is it? Kingturtle 20:09 17 May 2003 (UTC)

  • The quote in this article: "Who is the poor man better off under: Mother Teresa or Bill Gates? A Mother Teresa who hands them bowls of slop every day, so they can barely exist -- or a genius like Bill Gates who creates a fortune for himself by helping others to create fortunes" reads like it was written by people at The Onion. Is capitalism.org a parody site? Kingturtle 08:21 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

It's got backlinks from other seemingly serious sites... its alexa rating is pretty awful, but the one for capmag.com is more respectable. Perhaps we need a general article on capitalist website or somesuch? Martin 21:36, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

What is an alexa rating? How can I view them? Kingturtle 21:37, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)
I've added the URLs to the article. They're a measure of site traffic. See Wikipedia:Alexa test. Martin 21:40, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

This needs to be deleted, Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, not some joint for free advertisement of a third rate site run by some wanna be pseudo-intellectual. user:CRR 16:44, 1 Oct 2004

[edit] Move Request

Capitalism Magazine is the name of the group. For example, on capitalism.org and all the daughter pages, it says "© 2004-1996 Capitalism Magazine. All Rights Reserved."

As far as the "this should be deleted" people are concerned, Capitalism Magazine publishes some important people in the field like Thomas Sowell, Daniel Pipes, and what seems like half the staff of the Ayn Rand Institute, so it's a huge deal for Objectivists and, to a lesser degree, other libertarian-types. If Drizzt Do'Urden gets a page, this should be a no-brainer.

I've divided the voting into three sections: support the move, oppose the move, and delete the page.

Thanks, Dave 05:47, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

Support:

  1. Dave 05:47, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC) (see above)
  2. Nobbie 13:07, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC) Obvious case. How about Microsoft.com, UN.org... ;-)
  3. Widens the scope of the article violet/riga (t) 17:50, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Oppose:

Delete:

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. violet/riga (t) 08:47, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Libertarianism?

Capitalism Magazine is certainly not libertarian. Although they seem to share ideas in common with libertarianism, they explicitly reject the label. LaszloWalrus 06:27, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

That's like saying Objectivism isn't libertarian. The way I see it, anything endorsing laissez-faire capitalism (whether it's from an Objectivist perspective or not) is libertarian, though not necessarily Libertarian. Alienus 01:10, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

I disagree; CapMag's editors explicitly reject both labels. 24.94.5.94 03:31, 23 March 2006 (UTC)


Drizzt_Dourden is not propagandistic website run my pseudoscientific fanatics. Unregulated capitalism existed once, it failed terribly, that such a site should be listed on wikipedia is anti-intellectual. {{subst:unsigned2|18:24, 24 December 2006|24.146.5.148]]

Firstly, to claim that the website is propagandistic, that unregulated capitalism exited and failed terribly, and that it is anti-intellectural is pov. Wikipedia is supposed to be npov, which means that all points of views are equally included and that none are explicitly labeled correct. Being a Libertarian personally, I recognize that Capitalism Magazine is not Libertarian or libertarian. Objectivism is not Libertarian. It sounds similar, but its ultimate value is not liberty, but rather something else. I also dispute that pure Capitalism was ever tried. America in the 1800s had tariffs, inflationary banks, and other Mercantilist features. Anti-Capitalism began out of Marx's dislike for Victorian morals, which were not Capitalist by any sense of the imagination. Besides, I don't know or care what Drizzt Dourden is. It sounds like some kind of nonsensical made up word. I would not throw out the fanatic label lightly either as I believe Objectivists are sincere about their beliefs and reasonable, though I may be wrong. Life, Liberty, Property 08:42, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

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