Why capitalism is a fundamentally violent ideology 

The ideology of capitalism is to create a social hierarchy through wealth disparity; you get to the top by having more wealth than others.

Capitalists will always try to privatize basic needs and infrastructure, because those are the most reliable way to extract wealth; you always have to buy them, whether you want to or not.

And if you satisfy those needs without buying them, police will show up to evict you for not paying rent, arrest you for "stealing" food, and so on. If you resist them, violence will be used against you, to force your hand.

This means that there is a direct line from capitalist ideology to state violence; it cannot work without that. Capitalism *must* be violent to exist.

And sure, there are a couple ways to reduce these issues through eg. regulation - but crucially, every single one of those ways *goes against* capitalist ideology.

So "making capitalism work" through regulation is a very strange concept; you're "making it work" by removing it from the equation, by actively working against it.

By that point, isn't it just time to acknowledge that capitalism is violent and undesirable?

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