can never actually point to a time in history when it has actually existed. Sure they can come up with
gruesome 20th century examples of Communism, but have they anything to contrast it with? The Satanic Mills of the Gilded Age? The genteel slave plantations of the Antebellum South? Post-colonial America, with its suffrage limited to white, male, European Gentlemen of Property and their economy dominated by indentured servants and forced African Labor?

Did the Romans have it? The Greeks? Any of the Empires of Antiquity? The Merchant Adventurers of Elizabethan England or the Dutch Republic of the 1600s? No, they didn't even have Capitalism as we know it. They had Mercantilism. Capitalism didn't really exist in any remotely recognizable form until T. Roosevelt busted the Trusts, the Union movement took hold and FDR initiated the New Deal. It wasn't until then that it really started working for the rest of us.

"Now if Jill opens a sidewalk lemonade stand and Jack across the street opens one and charges a penny less per glass..."