>Do people think that competitive markets, where people
>had equal access to capital, would necessarily be a
>bad thing?
I do. Markets obscure the social connection between producers: 'a market economy means never having to say "sorry"', as you might say.
It's not just about access to capital (by which I take it you mean the material means of production: tools and the knowledge to use them) -- capital in the sense of money already presupposes capitalism.
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