In all fairness, the concept of owning things isn’t unique to capitalism - it’s Personal property vs. “Private” property. Whether it’s money or bartering, the things you bought you own via your own hard work, and that’s your personal property.
Private property shouldn’t be a thing. A corporation shouldn’t own anything - there should always be a person on that contract that can be held to account. If you want to profit from your enterprise, you should be prepared to go down with it.
If you can “buy” something it’s a form of capitalism, no?
People were able to buy stuff in communist countries like GDR and other soviet republics (well, shortages of goods aside of course lol). So those were capitalist in a way then?
Stalin et all. turning in their grave intensifies
Jokes aside:
Key points defining capitalism are the pursuit of profit and that the means of production are in private hands. Buying stuff is a “feature” of many systems besides capitalistic ones.
Edit: fixed autocowrecktion
No.
Capitalism doesn’t have a monopoly on market economies. ba-dum-tssh
We have confused many an alien…
“Good question, good question! The answer: Propaganda! Good old fashioned propaganda. We keep the larger class splintered into smaller groups that fight each other and we sit back and laugh all the way to the bank!”
