Capitalism and Marxism are ideas.
The historical acts, good or bad, due to these ideas are owned by the actors.
The historical acts, good or bad, due to these ideas are owned by the actors.
Yes, if you care about blame then you can just blame people for bad actions and call it a day. But if you care about actually preventing bad actions then you need to look at incentives, and that's where the study of political economy comes in.
> Incentives matter in the buyer/maketplace/seller realm of economics.
Materialism is the driver of the mischief in either the capitalist or Socialist case.