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.
Capitalism is an egregore. To accept how the mechanism works (which I do, as do you clearly) is to accept complicity in its effects. It is not so inscrutable that we can walk away from (say) the Bhopal gas tragedy with "oh, it's a thing that runs itself, nothing to be done"
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Capitalism is not "strong subject the weak". That is selling it really short, and is the mistake the NRxers make. It is actually much better than that. It actually drives strong and powerful emergent virtues (cf. McCloskey's "Bourgeois Virtues") that I think beat Darwin
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more nuance: these traders and merchants found they were more and more powerful, and used the power to bend politics / culture further towards their interests. call it leverage if not strength.
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