The Bastiat Society - Delaware Chapter

Description

The great strength of capitalism is that it is an economic system wherein everyone has the opportunity to be successful without ever thinking about the intellectual and cultural context that makes success possible. We do not have to know everything. We just have to know something useful to other people - and have the sense enough to use it for our mutual benefit.

Unfortunately, an economy built on limited individual knowledge is also capitalism's greatest weakness. It leaves those within the system vulnerable to those who claim that their perfect knowledge or theory is more important than individual knowledge or the individual will.

If individuals who benefit most from capitalism - the wealth creators - do not understand the intellectual and cultural institution that make business possible, what chance do they have to withstand a steady series of attacks from the intellectuals, populists, collectivists, and religious extremists who desire to bring capitalism and the life of the individual to an end.

That is why we formed the Bastiat Society: to educate other wealth creators on their right to the moral high ground, and to help them understand the intellectual and cultural institutions that are necessary for individual success. Our motto is, "Those who work in freedom should know how freedom works."

We call on successful business people everywhere to join us in an organization unlike any other in the world - a society of principled wealth creators, the benefactors of the human race, committed to reclaiming the moral high ground and the life of the individual.