I don’t know why I bother… oh wait, I do. There’s no sportsball on tv until MNF. So…
One thing that trips peeps up is when they start trying to define “who is a capitalist”. Which has a direct analog with the fools errand of trying to define “who is a racist”. That’s going at things in an ass-backwards garbage-in, garbage-out, manner.
Capitalism isn’t “a thing some peeps are”. It’s a relationship between people.
Modern capitalism is often said to have three main pillars… the wage system relationship, the landlord system relationship, the loans at interest relationship. Archaic capitalism had the slavery relationship, the sharecropping relationship, etc/etc. And this is all a gloss, because it leaves out the so-called “fourth pillar”… the intellectual property relationship, and etc/etc.
Cliffs: it’s the relationships, not “who is”.