capitalism > communism bc basically runs itself. didn't need to be introduced through cataclysmic violence. gradually evolved out of political realities and common law vs. conceived as an ad hoc solution to the world at large by a resentful, egg-head, patronizing, false prophet.
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Capitalism got "cleaned up" only around 1850 when the Crown replaced the East India Company after the first Indian mutiny revealed the governance abuses. Took 70 years of questions and debates in British parliament between ~1771 tea acts etc and 1850s before things got cleaner
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In modern form, you're partly right. Once Schumpterian growth overtook Smithian growth, most of the egregious failure modes of capitalism were corrected (slavery, colonialism) gradually. And while it's got a better record than communism in the 20th century, that's not saying much
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there's no "it". "it" does nothing, does not act. the strong subject the weak. the air cover was people pretending this was just or moral. more and more I think nobody ever believed that
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There is an it. Sorry, just because there is no subject that can be blamed doesn't mean there isn't a coherent complex system of mechanisms that exhibits emergent intentionality and has clear effects.
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