Just trying to lull folks into a false sense of amity and good fellowship, not like Communism and its little brother Progressivism, have been trying to totally emasculate and cripple relatively free capitalism for well over a century.
They very nearly achieved a pro-communist takeover back in the days of FDR and the New Deal. Look up some of the draconian regulations of the Office of Price Administration and “fair trade” laws. They also confiscated all the privately held gold in possession of US citizens, and criminalized the attempts to purchase gold.