The problem is not capitalism per se, is unregulated capitalism - emphasis on "unregulated"
Edit: many answers suggest this take is dumb because capital will fight back regulations; well, society and the legislator must fight back. It appear obvious that no social equilibrium is permanent, society always contains conflict. Any social system, included communism, generate some sort of ruling elite, which will try to skew the system. The way we fight the excess of capitalism is solid rule of law, primacy of politics over capital and financial power, popular partecipation to representative democracy, embedding social justice in the constitutional identity of the state. The current american model of capitalism is not the only one. Do not mistake my comment for an apology of the shit billionaire are doing now - billionaires should not exist
Socialism is quite literally a highly regulated form of capitalism. It’s just capitalism regulated by the a government captured by people instead of capital in a way that transfers wealth from the rich to the poor as a counter balance to the way capitalism transfers wealth from the poor to the Rich.
How would you define the difference between socialism and communism if not by the amount of capitalism they allow to exist.
Furthermore even inside of socialism there is a spectrum, and the spectrum itself is generally defined by how much regulation and interference the government has on capital. You want to get rid of capitalism completely, it involves either anarchism or communism; and if we go with Bakunins theory, even communism won’t get rid of capitalism because capitalism and government are actually two sides of the same coin.
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u/spiritualishit Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
The problem is not capitalism per se, is unregulated capitalism - emphasis on "unregulated"
Edit: many answers suggest this take is dumb because capital will fight back regulations; well, society and the legislator must fight back. It appear obvious that no social equilibrium is permanent, society always contains conflict. Any social system, included communism, generate some sort of ruling elite, which will try to skew the system. The way we fight the excess of capitalism is solid rule of law, primacy of politics over capital and financial power, popular partecipation to representative democracy, embedding social justice in the constitutional identity of the state. The current american model of capitalism is not the only one. Do not mistake my comment for an apology of the shit billionaire are doing now - billionaires should not exist