The main charachteristic of capitalism is that the society is divided in economic classes. Also who voluntered for capitalism? I mean there is no black and white in such matters i think. Both capitalism and communism are awful (in practice).

And you are talking about marx's communism, there are others too. You cannot dismiss everything because that failed. Btw i agree that there is a bug (rather more) in Marx's theory.

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The main characteristic of capitalism is property rights and the right to live free of coercion. You aren't tied to an economic class structure like pre-capitalist systems.

The main charachteristic of communism is a classless society (in theory of course).

If all have the same property rights, we have communism. So, the main characteristic of capitalism is economic classes.