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Are we going to pretend we haven't been indoctrinated to capitalism since we popped out of the womb?

No; commercials trying to coerce you to buy things isn't exactly the same as the indoctrination into communism that is required. Human beings create a barter economy when left alone which eventually evolves into capitalism. Communism has to be forced on a population.

When left alone, humans steal, murder, and rape each other. Does natural mean better?

Yeah, without extensive government humans revert to autocracy and barbarism, not capitalism. The vast majority of human society has not been "capitalism" by modern definition.

I love the ever moving goal post of a leftist's argument.

What is this "modern" definition lol? (aka just a nebulous definition that fits your argument) it's like arguing with a 12 year old.

"Capitalism is an economic system based upon private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Characteristics central to capitalism include private property, capital accumulation, wage labor, voluntary exchange, a price system and competitive markets."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence_economy

"A subsistence economy is a non-monetary economy which relies on natural resources to provide for basic needs, through hunting, gathering, and subsistence agriculture. "Subsistence" means supporting oneself at a minimum level; in a subsistence economy, economic surplus is minimal and only used to trade for basic goods, and there is no industrialization.[1][2]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_economy

"Traditional economy is an original economic system in which traditions, customs, and beliefs help shape the goods and the services the economy produces, as well as the rules and manner of their distribution. Countries that use this type of economic system are often rural and farm-based. Also known as a subsistence economy, a traditional economy is defined by bartering[citation needed][dubious ] and trading. A Little surplus is produced[citation needed], and if any excess goods are made, they are typically given to a ruling authority or landowner.

A pure traditional economy has had no changes in how it operates (there are few of these today). Examples of these traditional economies include those of the Inuit or those of the tea plantations in South India.[1] Traditional economies are popularly conceived of as "primitive" or "undeveloped" economic systems, having tools or techniques seen as outdated.[2] As with the notion of contemporary primitiveness and with modernity itself, the view that traditional economies are backward is not shared by scholars in economics and anthropology.One example of a traditional or custom based economy is Haiti."

Just a quick primer so you're not using nebulous terms.

I love when condescending nitwits Ike TC get fucked in their own topics