Capitalism is not a Useful Concept

Capitalism thus is everything and nothing, and is as problematic as any generalised statements on human nature. Power, exploitation, violence, environmental destruction, wage slavery, oligarchy: these are things to denounce, but capitalism is NOT a good explanatory concept for these nasty human tendencies. What is non-capitalism then? Do we even know? Does dispensing with capitalism as a concept make the struggle for a better world any less worthwhile a fight? Not at all, it just highlights the open-ended contingency of the future as the only ontological necessity, and resists any theological sense of historical finality. We don't know what a fair world would look like, and we don't know if in a fair world we would still need to fight against the undesirable tendencies of unchecked power, as we don't know how collective human behaviour would change in this possible future. Humans minus 'capitalism' ≠ paradise.