If I understand the communist/Marxist take on this, retaining any form of capitalism just allows the reproduction of these circumstances down the line. You stop it in the short term with laws, but if you retain the power of capital then those people just buy elections, buy politicians, etc, and we're back to this scenario again.

I'm not sure I agree with everything involved with communism, but I do agree with their take on this problem. We're going through it right now in the US. We fought, literally shed blood, for the rights we have and the regulations that protect us, and then money comes in and buys a shit government to take it all away.

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I would say Sweden is a social-capitalist society

In my experience, and if history has anything to say, if either system is half assed, exploitation is waiting on the other side.

Also just a dude, open to be corrected

I like how you say that. It made me deduce a thought of how everything we need should be socialized to some extent (or at least have superbly heavily regulated mandated processes and stuff), and the stuff we want can be provided through a "free market" (not to say the free market shouldnt be regulated, but it wouldnt need to be as strict as stuff/services that we need).

Healthcare & transportation being the most important things I can think of where the government should keep 100% of the controls.

Since Capitalism is just a method to distribute goods and services, it can't be good or evil. There is no intent. The problems arises when humans use capitalism. A natural process occurs that creates oligarchs. So most people apply the evil label to it. It is not meant to be taken literally.

I said this elsewhere too, but the bottom panel depicts something other than capitalism, since capitalism definitionally requires a competitive market.

Companies that are ostensibly in competition but not fighting each other too hard, is just another way of saying they are not in competition. It's not capitalism.

Capitalism is just another word for hoarding. The fact that it allows to have what you need is a side affect that capitalist would rather fix; it's a leak.