>"Is your implication that the rise of capitalism was a tragedy? Or were you only talking about the specific abuse of peasants in a most assuredly non-capitalistic aristocracy?"

Actually I consider the rise of capitalism an Italian invention on a par with Ferrari. I do want controls to keep that Ferrari from running over pedestrians.

Anything, including the concept of capitalism, can be taken to an extreme and be capable of great evils if unbridled.

The tragedy lies in the destruction of the individuals by stopping forever their choice of being able to eke out a subsistance level living from the commons, uprooting them and forcing them into the towns.

Why not try for discourse rather than resort to reductum ad absurbum?