There is no political solution to communists
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Capitalism is based on the well-founded notion that individuals are better at determining how to distribute resources than a centralized entity. The false ideal of "limitless growth" arises out of the legal mandate for public companies to maximize profits for their shareholders (i.e. central government interference.)
I'll go a step farther/simpler. We are talking about arguing with communists, after all:
Capitalism is the idea that things have value.
I don't think defining capitalism as essentially the "utility theory of value" vs. communism's "labor theory of value" is sufficient to distinguish it from pre-enlightenment economic systems, but given that "capitalism" itself (the word, not the idea) is a communist invention, perhaps we're falling victim to the trap of letting the enemy set the terms of the discussion.
Seeing as Marx invented the word Capitalism and prior to him there was no word for free market economies based on free exchange of capital, yes, it's the primary example of communists corrupting language.