Presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, responding to accusations that she is a Marxist and has been concealing much of her economic agenda from the public, gave a speech at the Economic Club of Pittsburgh on September 25 attempting to reassure voters that her earlier proposals for price controls, debt cancellations, and consumer subsidies, as well as her new proposals are not a Bolshevik assault on capitalism, but are intended to create an “opportunity economy” for the benefit of the American middle class. She affirmed “Look, I’m a capitalist, I believe in a free and fair market” and went on to specify three “pillars” of how she intends to confer the blessings of “opportunity” on market actors.
Harris spelled out a basic principle underlying her proposals as:
I believe an active partnership between government and the private sector is one of the most effective ways to fully unlock economic opportunity. And that is what I will do when I am president, I will target the major barriers to opportunity and remove them. We will identify common sense solutions to help Americans buy a home, start a business and build wealth, and we will adopt them.
In other words, she is promising that a Harris regime would not overtly seize the means of production from their current owners as Communist revolutionaries would, but instead would force those owners to accept the Harris administration as their active “partner” in making decisions about production. Evidently, she conceives of “opportunity,” not as something that capitalists are naturally incentivized to pursue by seeking profits and avoiding losses in the context of peacefully-acquired ownership rights and voluntary market exchanges, but rather as something that has to be incentivized by compulsory obedience to bureaucratic orders emanating from a central planning office under her allegedly beneficent leadership.
Hellbound and Down 