History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. Fascist Italy and Fascist Spain, Germany at various times in the last seventy years, Japan before World Wars I and II, tzarist Russia in the decades before World War I -- are all societies that cannot conceivably be described as politically free. Yet, in each, private enterprise was the dominant form of economic organization. It is therefore clearly possible to have economic arrangements that are fundamentally capitalist and political arrangements that are not free. Even in those societies, the citizenry had a good deal more freedom than citizens of a modern totalitarian state like Russia or Nazi Germany, in which economic totalitarianism is combined with political totalitarianism. Even in Russia under the Tzars, it was possible for some citizens, under some circumstances, to change their jobs without getting permission from political authority because capitalism and the existence of private property provided some check to the centralized power of the state. (en)
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Zdroj: FRIEDMAN, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. 3rd Edition, Chicago; Londýn : University of Chicago Press, 2002. 208 p. ISBN 0-226-26421-1. p. 10.
Milton Friedman: Štát
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War is a friend of the state. In time of war, government will take powers and do things that it would not ordinarily do. (en)
Friedman vysvetlil prečo je militaristická zahraničná politika Bushovej administratívy hrozbou pre jeho snahy zoštíhľovania štátnej správy.
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Zdroj: LOCHHEAD, Carolyn. Friedman's 'heresy' hits mainstream / Private Social Security accounts were his idea. http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Friedman-s-heresy-hits-mainstream-Private-2665465.php#page-2 In San Francisco Chronicle. ISSN 1932-8672, 2005-06-05 [cit. 2014-01-09].
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As it happens, I was opposed to going into Iraq from the beginning. I think it was a mistake, for the simple reason that I do not believe the United States of America ought to be involved in aggression. (en)
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Zdroj: VARADARAJAN, Tunku. Rose and Milton Friedman : The Romance of Economics. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB115352827130914276 In The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660, 2006-12-22 [cit. 2014-01-09].