No, Das Kapital is the title of a literary work, and the basis of an economic/political movement that demonizes private property ownership, entrepreneurship and freedom. But I'm sure you already knew that.
capitalism is a real thing.
Yes, it's called free enterprise. One of the basic tenets of the American dream....enjoyed by the founders, once they shook off the crown.
Economic freedom is a natural force which happens even in the most primitive cultures, where everyone has or develops a talent, or produces a product that is useful to others. (butcher, baker, candlestick maker)....until some thieving socialist comes along and screws it all up.
Marxists use the term "capitalist pigs" etc, to describe normal business people and use every trick in the book to divide them from the regular blue collar working people.
I wouldn't utilize their derogatory term any more than I would spell or pronounce a political enemy's name correctly.
(examples: Hitlary, Nazi Pelosi..."Little Adam Shitt")
Economic freedom ends at the border. You have no Constitutional right to economic freedom with other countries and/or its citizens.
Well, I do not recognize capitalism as a derogatory term. I prefer to celebrate it, and I certainly am a capitalist.
I understand the point you are making, but I do not agree with letting communist scumbags control our use of language.
Also, I happen to have my own soapbox, which includes my belief that people in general have never been exposed to corporate finance and the essential role of capital at the core of every enterprise, large or small—capital which is supported by the free markets and financial markets to be sure, but at the level of individual enterprises. This is the real blood and guts of our economic system.
It is my belief that this ignorance of the true essence of capitalism is a correctable weakness exploited by our enemies.
Ignorance (I am not aiming this at you, ROCKLOBSTER!) allows a whole generation (and more) to think socialism is a real economic system when in fact it is a parasite on capitalism until it kills the host system and becomes unadulterated tyranny, slavery and death.
(Okay, stepping down from soapbox now.)