Communism is more like “off the books” wealth in a lot of ways. In capitalism the people who control sections of the economy “own” them in the same way one owns

Communism is more like “off the books” wealth in a lot of ways. In capitalism the people who control sections of the economy “own” them in the same way one owns a shoe. In communism people still control sections of the economy, it just isn’t shown on paper. They do extract personal benefit from that control, it’s just in the form of a weird and inefficient black market barter system.