This is what they are being taught in our too-well-funded schools that turn out 16th rated students in the world.
An economic system based on private ownership of the means of production, in which personal bling can be acquired through investment of capital and employment of peeps. Capitalism is grounded in the concept of fo' real enterprise, which argues that the man's intervention in the economy should be restricted and that a free market, based on supply and demand, will ultimately maximize consumer dough.
Just explain it like this and they will get it - a person selling weed in Denver is capitalism. The government telling others that they can't and only they can sell weed is socialism.
They will understand' this 'fo 'real.