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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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Have you read Braudel or other early histories of capitalism? It's not quite that clean. In mercantilist pre-modern form it managed to bootstrap slavery and militarist colonialism without much of an ideological egghead air cover going.
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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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I'd say actual strength of modern market capitalism is twofold. One: abuses are restricted to slow/ invisible because fast/visible ones tend to be pre-empted in democracies. Two: slow failures are... slowly corrected. But often not fast enough to prevent very serious damage