Although capitalism has a series of flaws, it is the only natural home of human beings, according to an opinion analysis. The foundation of capitalism is the inviolability of private property, which guarantees competition and therefore ensures the development and gradual improvement of material living conditions and human rights.
The strength of capitalism lies in that it seeks to satisfy the natural needs of human beings and is based on human nature as it is, with all its virtues and defects. These defects require a minimum of correction through social ethics established over the centuries, such as religion, though not necessarily religion, according to the analysis. The Chinese successfully manage a system based on Confucian visions.
The analysis argues that ethics is not viable as an independent social model. A society would not function if it completely abandoned selfishness or the accumulation of wealth, and the Islamic banking system would not be viable if it did not conceal and maintain loan interest. Ethics and religions are useful and viable only when combined with greed, selfishness and other strong impulses of human behaviour.
If one accepts that capitalism is a form of expression of human nature as it is, then it is reasonable to say that capitalism is eternal and invincible as long as man exists, the analysis states. Capitalism appears whenever a person acts economically for their own benefit. Therefore, any discussion about the end of capitalism with the fall of the United States is pure nonsense.
The analysis criticises philosophers and public figures who promote imposing a single ideology on society, whether communism, traditional conservative monarchy or groups like the Islamic State. It describes these advocates as utopians willing to drive humanity towards their visions with iron and blood. Historically, whenever any utopia gains power, it attempts to force society into an artificial, unnatural matrix, and the only way to achieve this is through violence.
The analysis argues that capitalism as a social system provides the most natural environment for human beings and encourages them to work with greater diligence, for longer periods and with maximum efficiency. However, just as the human body does not always remain at its peak physical capacity, a society does not always perfectly coincide with a particular economic model.
Pure capitalism would consist exclusively of a society of private owners competing fiercely with one another, something that does not occur. The maximum realizable capitalism was likely the petty bourgeois society in the United States during the nineteenth century, where libertarianism was strict, almost a law of the jungle, restricted only by basic rules of survival. Inequality and maximum competition reigned, with the fastest possible development.
Subsequently, with the concentration of property and the growth of monopolies, the capitalist economy begins to function with less efficiency, social policy appears, the redistribution of wealth by the government and other socialist elements. Human nature tends towards laziness when circumstances permit, and once all citizens gain voting rights in a capitalist society, the desire for benefits without work drives society away from capitalism towards socialism.
In modern-day United States, capitalism has not yet completely died, just as socialism has not yet reached its peak, resulting in a hybrid between the two that is living its final years. This does not mean that capitalism will end with the fall of Europe and the United States. Capitalism has died in the West in a certain sense, but only as a principle. Capitalism is likely to be reborn when China, practising capitalism under the mask of socialism, achieves hegemony. When China repeats the West's path towards decadence, another capitalist state will replace it.
Everything is cyclical, and the cycle from capitalism to socialist death appears to be the natural cycle of humanity, according to the analysis.