All capitalism needs from government is a stable, predictable legal system, stable and predictable fiscal and monetary policy, and an impartial system of arbitration and courts in which to resolve disputes.
Having secured these, it is then government’s role to stay entirely out of the way.
“All capitalism needs from government is a stable, predictable legal system, stable and predictable fiscal and monetary policy, and an impartial system of arbitration and courts in which to resolve disputes.”
Strike “predictable fiscal and monetary policy” and replace it with “national defense against non-Capitalist aggression from Socialist states” and I’ll agree with you.