I think the point was, the socialist states of the soviet bloc were explicitly 'capitalist', and that was something they said about themselves. The point is, th

I think the point was, the socialist states of the soviet bloc were explicitly 'capitalist', and that was something they said about themselves. The point is, they thought about capitalism as something they were transitioning out of, and trying to actively replace. Capitalism is a pretty clear idea - it's a society characterized by wage labour. Non-capitalist societies don't have the concept of selling your labour-time for a wage. That's why feudal societies aren't capitalist (they didn't have clocks, for one thing). That's why the soviet block was capitalist.