>>7277325you basically described why it's a false dichotomy in your post, by implying that condemning one set of assholes implies their oppositional or comparative relation to another set
capitalism can be meaningfully said to be a social and political system, and a cultural one, as well as an economic one, but there is a difference between the way in which belgium is "capitalist" or a 19th century imperialist country is "capitalist", and the way in which authoritarian juntas use communism as an explicit, central ideology to make primitives garrote each other
a better comparison would be right wing revolutionary ideologies like fascism, which do the exact same thing as communism, described by sorel and understood by mussolini (both basically socialists turned fascists): they make average plebs follow your orders and treat every bit of opposition as a zero-sum total war where either the utopian dream and with it all hope of happiness in the world, or your enemy, are completely annihilated
you can definitely demonstrate that lower class americans will defend "capitalism" as a "system", some kind of vague utopian thing, while their country slides into plutocratic oligarchy, so capitalism clearly is a social-political-cultural-moral thing and not just some set of economic methods. but there's a bit of a difference between that, what that guy is willing to do in service of what he thinks is capitalism, and the kind of zealots communism/fascism has produced over and over again.
