How is survival not capitalism?
You have the whole book here explaining the ecocidal nature of capitalism, @joeyarnoldvn. Why do you repeat the same questions all over again? Why don’t you want to read? You also have the same awareness of capitalism as the ultimate destructive force with Chris Hedges in his book “America — The Farewell Tour”. And you can find it with Anand Giridharadas in his book “Winners Takes All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World”, and you can hear it from him in the first video in my post Billionaires — A Social Metastasis — try [5:40] — “The myth says that whats good for them [billionaires] is god for everybody else. Win-win ideology.” — “Anybody believe that any more?” — “I think people are starting not to believe it in droves!”
Either you have authoritarianism or you do not.
Capitalism is authoritarianism. Capitalism is exploitative social order. It cannot be sustained without state force.
They banned gold. Now, they may say they didn't but people were arrested for hoarding like you said which is then therefore by effect the same and equal to banning. Plus, they wouldn't let people redeem their gold. Money was supposed to be gold backed. But he took us off the gold standard. America went bankrupt in 1933.
You have to fact-check your sources. That simply is not truth. Banning hoarding of gold is not banning gold. It is a simple fact that you could buy gold for dollars, as an individual or as a state, until 1971. This is FED history page That is the true date when Bretton Woods system ended. The last one who used the chance to take gold out of U.S. was Charles De Gaulle, and after that Nixon announced bankruptcy. Here is a list that shows how FDR has established a relation gold-dollar which was holding up until Nixon has taken office:
https://www.thebalance.com/gold-price-history-3305646
Whoever feeds you is lying to you. Learn history from documents, not from the sites and authors you prefer. Then think with your own head.
RE: The American Choice