OK, so you significantly edited your reply, rather than do the same I'll respond again: "smoothly conflate mercantilism and capitalism." That mercantilism was

OK, so you significantly edited your reply, rather than do the same I'll respond again: "smoothly conflate mercantilism and capitalism." That mercantilism was a phase of capitalism is a common - though not universally accepted - point of view. "WW2 flat requires the re-branding of command economies as "capitalist"." Repeating myself somewhat, but that depends on how you attribute causation. That capitalism was in crisis in the 1930s is pretty uncontentious. That the effects of that crisis on Germany contributed to the rise of Nazism is also fairly uncontentious. The rest depends on how you weight those factors against others. I appreciate that you are not open to the view that a non-murderous and non-totalitarian socialist society is possible. I myself am on the fence. However I do strongly believe the first half of my argument: that capitalism begets death and destruction on a scale that exceeds the murderousness of the 20th century's totalitarian regimes (whether within 'wartime' or 'peacetime' matters not to me). I hope that something better is possible. I accept that based on the empirical evidence we are screwed.