>people who write "capitalism is bad because of X" are usually interested in replacing it with leftism
This sounds like looking for a fight that has been fought thousands of times before rather than looking to learn something interesting though.
To me a more interesting question would be, if we steel man the public conception of the problems of capitalism, and we accept that the public conception of communism is problematic to implement to say the least, what remains? How can we move forward without endlessly getting stuck in the same tired argument about communism? How can intelligent people discuss solutions to these issues? What are our alternatives?
This sounds like looking for a fight that has been fought thousands of times before rather than looking to learn something interesting though.
To me a more interesting question would be, if we steel man the public conception of the problems of capitalism, and we accept that the public conception of communism is problematic to implement to say the least, what remains? How can we move forward without endlessly getting stuck in the same tired argument about communism? How can intelligent people discuss solutions to these issues? What are our alternatives?