The Free Market Manifesto!

By Kariem Abdul Haqq and Media

The "Free Market Manifesto!" presents a counterrevolutionary struggle against all unnatural maladjustments that lead to special privileges, injustices, and corruption. Its goal is to restore freedom and prosperity to humanity. It highlights the twenty Economic Bill of Rights that, if implemented, will s

• Language: English
• Publisher: 13th Amendment Freedom Week Movement
• Release date: Jan 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9780997193275

Kariem Abdul Haqq

Kariem Abdul Haqq lives in North St. Louis County with his faithful and loving wife Marilyn and his beloved son Idris. He obtained a B.S. Degree in Economics from Missouri University – St. Louis (1980) and a Dual Master’s Degree in Finance and International Business from Webster University (1989). He has had a passion for the study of free market economics for a number of years. It started with a search for economical solutions for the problems confronting black people in particular and the world in general. He studied socialism at first, but he soon realized that it demonstrated a lack of objectivity, sincerity, and integrity to study just one perspective. So Kariem Abdul Haqq started studying free market economics, and that is when answers started coming. Understanding how the economic and material world works was like taking off dark sunglasses, and everything seemed so much clearer. He came to the conclusion that the proper knowledge and application of good economic theory can eliminate poverty, eliminate moral decline, lessen racism, reduce crime, prevent wars, and establish peace and justice. His objectives have been to seek truth wherever it is found and advocate freedom, justice, and equal opportunity for all. He believes in studying the past, living the present, and planning for the future. His motto is: “great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and small minds discuss people.” Kariem A. Haqq has written another book entitled The 13th Amendment Freedom Week Manual. This manual focuses on the ANTI-slavery movement in America, starting with the Quakers and the Founding Fathers. It ends with the Abolitionist Movement and the Reconstruction Era. It is hoped that it will give proper respect and honor to the brave souls who, with our Creators’ help, unleashed overwhelming powerful forces to break the chains of bondage for four million slaves and their descendants. Kariem A. Haqq is an author and the founder of the 13th Amendment Freedom Week Movement. It is based upon the author’s monumental book. This Movement is to promote a celebration week that educates and celebrates the beginning of freedom for ALL (and not just some) American citizens. The 13th Amendment marks the first time in American history that ALL law-abiding Americans were legally freed.

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The Free Market Manifesto! presents a counterrevolutionary struggle against all unnatural maladjustments that lead to special privileges, injustices, and corruption. Its goal is to restore freedom and prosperity to humanity. It highlights the twenty Economic Bill of Rights that, if implemented, will stop the spread of Socialism/Communism in any country and will transform Socialists/Communists nations into free-market economies with limited government, individual freedom, and improved standards of living for all its inhabitants. It will establish freedom, justice, and equal opportunity for all - Peace, Happiness, and Prosperity!

The Free-Market Manifesto!

Copyright@2021 Kariem Abdul Haqq

All Rights Reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-9971932-7-5

LCCN: 2022930238

Contact the Publisher at:

The 13th Amendment Freedom Week Movement

P.O. Box 2072

Florissant, MO 63032

Website: www.13thamendmentfreedomweek.com

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to Merrill Jenkins Sr., Founder of the Monetary Realist Society and author of Money the Greatest Hoax on Earth (1971). It is also dedicated to those great students and supporters of Merrill Jenkins Sr. M.R., who tried to expose the truth about money and interest and their evils to the American people. A few of these dedicated Monetary Realists’ names are as follows: Bruce G. McCarthy, Dave Wiber, Amos Bruce, and Dr. Paul Hein.

This book is also dedicated to Frederic Bastiat, the author of The LAW (1850), Leonard Read, Founder of The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the author of many books on the Freedom Philosophy, and to Ludwig Von Mises, who became a champion of free-market economics and the author of many excellent books on the subject.

Last but not least, this book is dedicated to ALL those great men and women who fought for freedom, justice, and equal opportunity and have stood opposed to Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Nazism, and Mercantilism doctrines, policies, and tenets. These doctrines have caused extreme suffering, destruction, and death on the earth. But those brave and courageous warriors for freedom faced the danger, kept their faith, and fought the good fight.

The Free Market Manifesto!

The solution to saving the free market economy!

The solution to saving America!

The solution to saving the world!

There is no perfect world. There has never been nor ever will be. There is no perfect free market economic system, and there is no perfect socialist/communist economic system. What is true is that civilization will advance further the more society embraces the free market, limited government, and personal responsibility. And civilization will decline faster the more society embraces Socialism/Communism.

Greed vs Covetousness

At the heart of Socialism is covetousness.

In common language, both terms (greed and covetousness) are used interchangeably because of blurred definitions that project the same meaning. And many times, they project the same mistrust and disgust.

From ancient times in secular literature, as well as in present-day translations or interpretations of scriptural revelation – transcripts, they (greed and covetousness) have lost their true meaning and intent. They have lost their differences. But there is a subtle and significant difference. And that the differences can have almost opposite effects in terms of human progress.

Greed is having a strong excessive desire for something - good or bad. It has been turned into a bad word, just like the word profit. And profit is simply the wealth production in excess of consumption during successful efforts of capital and labor. Just like greed, it motivates individuals to improve themselves and work for noble causes. When the intent is right, greed is good! When you add legitimate competition and cooperation, it is what makes civilizations advance. It is similar to having dreams and ambitions. It motivates people to learn skills, get educated, and work hard. Simply because they want more than what they have, they seek improvement from day to day and from year to year.

As long as they do not destroy, in the process, anyone else’s life, liberty, or property, individuals are free to follow their own pursuits of happiness. It makes them better, and as a result, it makes society better.

Covetousness is desiring something (or someone) that does not belong to an individual but to someone else. It is like wanting something for which a person did not earn or work for. It will make the individual and society worse. Covetousness is always evil!

Covetousness is a man not wanting a wife like his neighbor, but it is him wanting/ desiring his neighbor’s actual wife. It is not him wanting a house or car like his neighbor, but wanting/desiring his neighbor’s actual house and his actual car. It is not wanting a home or savings account like his neighbor but wanting/desiring his neighbor’s actual home or savings account.

It will cause jealousy and envy, and all of the deadly sins.

Covetousness will break many of the Ten Commandments such as do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not kill, do not disbelieve (worship other gods or no God at all, worship idols, vain self-worship, take God’s name in vain, not keeping the Sabbath day, and not honoring one’s parents). It is placed as the last of the Ten Commandments as an underpinning for the others.

The truth is trapped in the incorrect definitions. Once people are free from being trapped in these two blurred meanings or misunderstood words, they will become saner, and the world will become a better place. But when they try to cover themselves with self-righteous pretentious morality, they compromise and capitulate, trying to avoid extremes. They try to find the middle ground but end up sacrificing lifesaving principles. They unwittingly strive for and settle for mediocrity.

Being extreme is not good except when seeking freedom, justice, equal opportunity, and optimal survival. Striving for truth, righteousness, and excellence are all pro-survival thoughts and behaviors. They require much dedication and intensity and can cover a lifetime.

In today’s world, people are accusing other people of being greedy. On the other hand, some people are accusing others of being covetous. The world is divided into two ideological camps played out in the political world and political parties. One ‘non - wealth building’ group is calling another group greedy because it desires to create wealth. And the ‘wealth-building’ group is calling the other group covetous because it wants to confiscate wealth and redistribute it to someone who did not earn it or to whom it does not really belong.

So, we have to ask ourselves, are we on the side of greed or covetousness?

Will we be trapped in language, or will we be free?

I have never understood why it is greed to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.

Thomas Sowell

Introduction

The Free Market Manifesto presents a counterrevolutionary struggle against unnatural maladjustments that lead to special privileges, injustices, and corruption. Its goal is to restore freedom and prosperity to humanity. Through toil and struggle, man has strived for freedom.

At the beginning of his creation, God gave man free will and the freedom to make choices. This is inherited in the original righteous nature of all men. In man’s struggle for optimal survival, he must eventually conform to the laws of nature, including the laws of human nature and economics.

There are three parts to man. Man is spiritual, physical, and mental. He is made up of spirit, body, and mind. The spirit is the real person, and the spirit has a body, and it has a mind. The mind will cease to exist and likewise the body. But the spirit, which goes into the physical body at conception and comes out as a soul at death, will live indefinitely according to the will of God.

Man will forever toil and struggle not just for food, clothing, and shelter but also for freedom on all three levels of existence. He will strive for spiritual freedom. He will strive for physical freedom. He will strive for mental freedom.

Food, clothing, and shelter, which in essence are his properties, will assist him in his striving on all three levels of existence. Property is an extension of