Capitalism is often conflated with free enterprise and free markets but capitalism is the money system (capital=money+ ism=system=capitalism) that extracts wealth from the economy via interest compounded. Yes as mentioned below, "Capitalism is a system that rewards investors at the expense of labor, the wealthy at the expense of the poor." Debt is used to control and dominate the market and government to maximize profits and increase their power to decide and control. To have a democracy government must control the money therefore we must take the money creation power out of private unelected hands (the banks) and have an elected government instead. Anthony is right that we can't wait much longer to make this change. “The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.“ ~ Lord Acton