@p @matrix "Capitalism" began when Karl Marx coined the term to describe what Communism was intended to fix. Before then it was just "how things work".
Markets spontaneously exist where trade can occur, even as a black market below a tyrannically taxing feudal lord. The idea that markets should be laissez-faire (government hands off) is a Dutch/Enlightment thing.
Trade and private property is as old as tool usage. Even animals have a sense of property/territory ownership and defend and fight over it. Capitalism allows humans to negotiate and compromise and trade so that property can be exchanged without violence or domination.
Last I saw, Existential Comics drank the commie kool-aid, so I'd wager this tweet is unironic.
Too bad he doesn't mention "a famine" known as the Holodomor was a planned (central planning!) engineered famine to murder millions of successful farmers who were not loyal enough to socialism, by drastically raising their grain quota and taking away all their harvest before winter. Then banning them from traveling or begging in the cities. Then banning cannibalism (they literally put up signs saying not to eat people). Much cannibalism occurred anyway. Millions died. Then, the following years, other parts of the USSR starved, because they'd murdered their farmers.
so that's what "a famine" was, and how it could be pretty evil.