That actually depicts monarchy and imperialism.

Wrong.

Nope. Wrong--just as wrong as the rest of Soviet ideology...rather...idi-ology, which is why Sovietism never worked--it lacks similar grasp of reality because the idi-ology leaves you blind.

What sounds like Soviet idi-ology and smells like Soviet idi-ology is Soviet idi-ology enough for me, and I'm a person who has debated the fine points thereof via Moscow Mailbag pretty much throughout their shortwave radio service during the Cold War. Idi-ology includes Engels & Marx, also argued by Leninists, and the one thing they have in common is divorce from the realities on the ground. They've theorized how capitalism works in their view and their view is an unworkable theory and remains unworkable theory and will always be unworkable theory because the key word here is UNWORKABLE, due to faulty unreal concepts of what capitalism actually IS. As long as you cite the delusions of the delusioned, you'll never get agreement from me on the subject.

Of course your theory of capitalism is unworkable--you've exhibited an unworkable "understanding" of it from the get-go, and that's been an ongoing problem of Sovietism all along even under its current iteration. Also Maoism.

Read "The Incredible Bread Machine", and then study the long, long history of human trade even back to barter days. The capitalism I defend isn't based on any cockeyed theory; it's based on human activity, something that is an entirely human characteristic. My concept of capitalism works because it's had centuries-long track record of actually working.

I should also add that no amount of theorizing is going to make it go away, either. It's almost as old as human activity on this planet.

And you're wrong. Dead wrong. You're talking about capitalism as a cockeyed pipe dream theory and you'll always be wrong as long as you do.
Actual capitalism has been around as long as humanity, which is why it's not even theoretical.

And yet you can thank the commerce of antiquity for the fact that gold is international currency. Deal with it.

There's always a lot of alternatives to screwy theories, fella. Screwy theories is all you've got, so, basically, you're screwed. So is everybody else that adheres to screwy theories as if that's all there is. Y'all best just get real.

And this is how Jonathan bullshits--AND gets blocked. Screwy theories is what you people follow as a religion without reason.

Wrong. Theories are theories are theories, as in not real until proven in practice. None of the members of the Church of Eco-Political Theories believe in repeatedly in proven practice while assiduously adhering to last century's disproven classical theories. I like to keep it real--adherents to the Church of Eco-Political Theories don't.