You can't have capitalism without private property rights.

There is no effort that would make the theory of communism not what it always becomes. You can't be a human without property rights. The entire theory of communism reduces us to disposable animals. No amount of mental gymnastics or dishonest philosophical tricks will change that.

Communism is state ownership of people. That's ultimately all it is. That's the theory. You can dress it up in a million different ways and say the effort just wasn't there to match the theory, but the truth is that the theory is so rotten that it's always going to end the same way.

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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.

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.