I think the label like “communism” are completely useless.
Our system is defined by the Constitution, and beyond that - the way and extent to which it is enforced. It’s not enough to simply call it a “Republic”. Even @Self Governing Constitutional Republic” is not enough - every detail matters.
Alternative proposed forms of government like “Communism” need either to spelled out and detailed in a similar fashion to our Constitution, or to be rejected out of hand for lack of definition.
Communism, capitalism, Free-trade, Democracy, Socialism - all should be dirty words if they are offered without full definition.
Democracy can be tyranny of the majority.
Capitalism can be tyranny if oligarchs and monopolists
Communism can be tyranny of the bureaucracy
Even MAGA or America First can be tyranny if its leadership goes astray.
Any system of government can be tyranny if it’s not accountable to the people who delegated their authority to it. The name means nothing.
Which is a trap, a trap of the Marxists, and you’re only abetting it, honestly. Capitalism is a derogatory term invented by Communists/Socialists to deride freedom. A better term for that economic philosophy is a “free market” but who can call a truly free market evil? Oligarchy and Monopoly are antithetical to a free market, so saying that either are *part* of a free market or “Capitalist” system is being just as disingenuous as the Marxists/Socialists.
And, honestly, even though “free market” in that context is perfectly fine and frankly fully descriptive in the way you say we need, it’s limiting that instead of describing it as a “free market” we should simply describe it as freedom.
Now, to be sure, you don’t get something for nothing and you can’t have freedom for free. Freedom takes work, and the sausage making often isn’t pretty. But don’t get caught in the trap of on the one hand ACCEPTING terms like Capitalism then saying they are unsuited to purpose - because deriding freedom as Capitalism has scored the Marxists/Socialists exactly the prize intended.
I should have added this in the earlier response...
The other error (or deception) is to connect monopoly and oligarchy with capitalism in the first place. There is NOTHING more monopolistic than a Communist society and in Communist and Socialist societies the oligarchs are selected by the point of the point of the gun as opposed to trade practices. So stop attaching monopolies and oligarchs to either Capitalism or the free market. That’s furthering leftist propaganda even if you don’t think it is.
Now if we could just get our Constitution to actually be the Law of the Land. Many Democrats seem violently opposed to that.