well, maybe by the same things, but a different system. I don't disagree. I think what we mean by capitalism is a big part of the disconnect between "left" or "real left" or old left and what seems to be a new right. I make a distinction between free enterprise or entrepreneurship and capitalism, where the latter used capital to control things as opposed to one's own labor.

So, when one goes to open a cheese shop or something, if they have to get a loan to do it then the lender is the capitalist and calls the shots. Simply by deciding who is lent money to do things is a way to call the shots. The crap they're doing to Mike Lindell shows Mike is not really a "capitalist" but his business is at the mercy of them. Now if the cheese shop owner does so well that he hires people to sell and maybe even make the cheese, and the cheese shop owner lives a good leisurely life and sends his kids to get an MBA so they do not have to work at a cheese shop for any other reason than character building or learning how to manage underlings, the plucky entrepreneur may have switched sides, using his accumulated capital to pay labor (and landlords and taxes etc) instead of the sweat of his brow.

What left and right seem to miss, but maybe Lenin caught, was how Marx praised capitalism. He liked a top down organized society and somehow thought that was the path to get to what ever he saw as the end point of his fantasies. His fantasies do not weaken his analysis of the system though. Lenin was proud of reorganizing Russia into the "Soviet" system, not run by "soviets" or workers at all, and pointed to how much better production was under him compared to the Czar. I'm sure with no one around to call him out on all the dead and starving people he caused, he could be proud of it. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.