Why does everyone think the only alternative to capitalism is communism?
Because of successful anti-anarchist propaganda, an overwhelming majority of Americans think anarchy means no rules whatsoever.
Because people who don’t understand what words mean label every possible post-capitalist system as communism even though they’re as different from each other as they are from capitalism.
Because capitalism is a communist concept to begin with. Communism invented capitalism. Communism is a direct response specifically to capitalism. One might legitimately label anything that follows from the analysis and criticism of Marx’s concept of capitalism as a school of communism.
Whether you believe in it or not, it’s like being shocked that all the treatments for vertebral subluxation are chiropractic.
People with hammer and sickle in the name never fail to give out impartial takes.
