Vox
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You equate the economic theory of capitalism with the political theory of democracy as if the two are mutually and inexorably tied together. I can assure you that they are not. No, they are not natural allies since unrestrained capitalism can enslave a population just as surely as a dictatorship can because unrestrained power will not permit dissent when it sees that dissent as a threat to its continued preeminence.
except democracy does not exist with any other economic platform
capitalism is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for democracy to exist
A few observations.
There is no economic system codified within the US Constitution.
Unregulated capitalism does not exist within the US. People may long for it in some philosophical way, but they would not be happy campers if they found themselves in a situation similar to the Midwest and the West back in the 1800s when everyone was at the mercy of the powerful railroads with a gov't that was either unwilling or unable to intervene on the behalf of citizens, small towns, counties, and individual states.
China as a capitalist economic system, but they're a one party communist political system.
a few remarks. Constitution does not have to codify economic platform - the political superstructure is already there and capitalism as economic platform has to be the ONE by a default.
second. Nobody is talking about wild unregulated capitalism - but the government as a bureaucratic machine tends to expand exponentially and serve only itself - therefore needs constant cutting and curbing - and that is what is needed ASAP now.
third. China is NOT a capitalist system it is still socialist economic platform with permission of severely restricted private enterprise in selected areas and under strict one party government control. I would say it resembles most the fascist states, but in a more advanced stage ( neither Italy nor Germany ever had the chance to go that far - 7 years is not enough at all, and war time does not count.)