Capitalism is too broad a concept to classify as good or evil. There are forms that are evil and forms that are good. Free market capitalism is what America is supposed to stand for. It means that the economy isn't centrally planned by "experts," but is rather allowed to self regulate by something akin to natural forces rooted in human nature. Crony capitalism, however, involves a lot of tinkering by government and banking "experts" (technocrats), and is in reality what we now have in the US. This power to tinker invariably leads to corruption by means of the super wealthy class gaining control of the tinkering process to their own advantage, leading to a concentration of wealth in few hands and a shrinking middle class. Sound familiar?