America is a nation of liberty, brotherhood and intellectual clarity. There is no 'ism' that made or makes it great; it is the people who make it so. If it is not great, it is nevertheless the people who make it so.
The 'founders' were eclectic, not simple ideologues. They accepted and incorporated divergent concepts of theology, politics and economics.
Worshiping 'capitalism' is such a gross error that it seems unthinkable such a thing could happen. 'Capitalism' is merely a tool, something we can use, not something that must be used. It may be appropriate in some cases and not others. Blind faith in something that is not even a faith is inhuman. Capital itself is a mere creation of the mind of man, thus it and all value issue from the same source; human thought, followed by human effort.
"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln wasn't an economist. His theory is false.
Capitalism is the system that results when you respect the laws of economics. They are not whims. They are laws.
Lincoln didn't have to be an economist to realize that Capitalism depends on cheap labor, cheap raw materials and cheap energy so that there is enough profit to pay the owners of the means of production far more than they deserve and to pay the workers far, far less than they deserve.
Actually capitalism primarily depends only on one thing: lack of coercion.
Same can't be said about communism, which primarily depends on coercion.
I am not sure your premise is correct. Coercion doesn't necessarily have to be violent. All social systems have laws and those laws restrict us all in some way. In our free market system, places where Christianity is most ubiquitous have the most strict laws and ordinances.. Violate them enough and you will end up being penalized in some way. Anti miscegenation laws kept people of different races from marrying in many southern states.. here were Jim Crow laws. There were laws to facilitate the health and welfare of one group at the expense of another....
Millions in our capitalist system find themselves trapped in a 9 to 5 job they hate. They have a spouse they can't stand, are plagued by a host of social ills and are overburdened by so much debt that many will never be able to pay off. Feeling trapped? Hows that for coercion? And noooo, you can't just walk away. They'll come after you for child support and alimony...as they should if you don't take care of your kids. Still, it is a trap...and many of you are miserable....
Coercion doesn't have to be violent indeed, never said that. Usually it's done by putting a gun on one's head and demanding they do what thy desire. And that is exactly what communists believe in, and capitalists don't.
No one coerces anyone to take any debt in capitalism. It's ridiculous to state that you should be able to steal the wealth of others because you chose a crappy profession. You commie apologist regressives are laughable, did you not hear... 100 million dead? You don't have to apologize, FUCK communism.
Meanwhile, in an American universities, where the commie apologists (or rather the full blown Marxists) decided to host a meeting, expressing their true views and methods:
Let me tell you how this discussion would go if we were talking about Nazism. Everyone would deem it racist and state "Fuck Nazism", perhaps that is what the course of action should be in this case as well? Absent the indoctrination presented above, that would be the reasonable course to take...