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Kyuubi4269 posted...

They had a financial monopoly that outside forces came to disassemble so they made an equivalent to maintain the financial dominance they wanted, how is that not aggressive capitalism?

Monopolies are antithetical to the core of capitalism because they stifle competition and short-circuit the laws of supply and demand.

One of the core arguments of capitalism is that the public is best served by multiple competitors striving to provide a single good or service. Each one will be pressure by market forces into offering the best quality for the lowest cost, else their competitors will outsell them. This model requires competition in order to function; where monopolies or monopsonies form, capitalism suffers because the laws of supply and demand are no longer in effect.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Right wingers drop in to groups in times of need to regain stability then seperate to free themselves of potential anchors. Left wingers see the potential for everyone working together yielding the most fruit, but separate to maintain their individuality.

All you've basically said here is that right-wingers sometimes use left-wing behaviour and left-wingers sometimes use right-wing behaviour. The fact that right-wingers sometimes make use of it does not mean that collectivism is not a left-wing behaviour.

It is not coincidence that collectivist societies also tend to have thriving socialist and/or communist parties or movements (as seen in Japan, as well as most other East Asian countries).
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