We do have a capitalist system. Capitalism is the private or corporate
ownership and control of property for the profit of the owner, it's a
system of top down centralized control by private investors.
This
system by it's very nature centralizes control of assessable wealth
into fewer and fewer hands, there is an inherent systemic instability in
the accumulation of capital that can only be resolved either through
a collapses in which property owners lose their wealth, through the
redistribution of wealth, or through the abolishment of the capitalist
system.
There are a variety of alternatives, one is the worker
cooperative model, one in which I am employed. That is when workers
share equal equity in the institution (workers own the workplace) and
make decisions democratically (or by a democratically established
system).
Let's contrast shall we?
In the right hand you have a system of centralized control of power and wealth, in which the business owners
and investors profit from the labor of
the workers.
In the left hand you have a democratic system in
which the workers are also the owners. The difference is comparative to the difference between democracy and feudal aristocracy, a more than justified comparison.
There are many other
alternative systems, but these two are comparatively simple.
The Capitalist system starves
people in cage beds in Hong Kong and makes them pay for the privilege.
It forces parents to choose between sacrificing their health and
suffering the pain of hunger and exhaustion on the one hand, and
watching their children starve on the other. It claims voluntary
anything poverty can force a person to agree to.
Capitalism is a system of violence and of force,
both economic and physical for the centralized control over social
property (workplaces) is ultimately enforced by violence.
And the
"We Don't Have Capitalism" argument speaks to free market illusions
conjured by the high priests of wealth and privilege, who have stolen
the language of liberty and twisted it to defend the vicious domination
of a ruling aristocracy, that calls the worker violent for forming a
picket line then calls the violent suppression of the worker by state thugs and corporate mercenaries self defense.