I apologize for the use of Internet slang, but in this case I hope you’ll let it slide. On the comments section of his blog, Brad Spangler just pwned someone real hard. Here are the two relevant comments:

#4 devon Says:
July 20th, 2007 at 3:17 pm

Capitalism by definition is a system of private ownership without government regulation of supply and demand or prices. That’s what a free market is – the lack of coercive interference in trade, whether by the government or by the traders themselves. That’s capitalism.

I’m well aware that Kevin Carson tries to redefine capitalism, and it looks like Spangler has accepted the misinformation, but what Carson is talking about is mercantilism, not capitalism. Capitalism, again, by definition is a laissez-faire system.

#6 Brad Spangler Says:
July 20th, 2007 at 9:15 pm

Ahem…

“One word identifies and wards off all errors: what could be easier than to say what is or is not liberty?
Liberty then, nothing more, nothing less. Laissez faire, laissez passer, in the broadest and most literal sense; consequently property, as it rises legitimately from this freedom, is my principle.” — P.J. Proudhon, the first self-labeled anarchist

Go on — call Proudhon a “capitalist”. I dare you.

Nothing but net.