It's a position destined to be slandered as misanthropy, ironically by many of those who aspire to 'radical thought' & who seem to be tasked with maintaining the assumption that this is not a legitimate ethical stance to take.
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I have no interest in pitching anything above or against capital, precisely the opposite in fact. And that's the tea, cis.
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I genuinely don't understand why anticapitalism seems coherent to people at all. I don't want to say 'you're all delusional' because even engaging seems like a dead end - It must be something I am forever incapable of grasping ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Leftists suffer from an inferiority complex and deem anything that is strong and successful as "bad", such as capitalism, individualism, America, and so on
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And right wingers uncritically worship whatever violent and unequal power structure can make them feel the toughest and which serves their interests the most.
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I thought your original tweet was regarding why do people attack capitalism? Right wingers indubitably want to keep and enhance their will to power, indeed.
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My original point was more like that it's not going away no matter what either of these groups think.
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Everything goes away, eventually. Capitalism has been around about 300 years, give or take. With degradation of the environment & depletion of natural resources, it could easily collapse into desperate, fascist-style collectives fighting for survival.
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I thought SMUTT was referring to me. But when they can't spell and they are making false accusations, I figure the Twitter debate is pretty much over. I'm about as conservative as Mikhail Bakunin. Ha!