By Ben Bush
There is a large strain of leftist thought—whether from liberal Marxists or (parts of?) the Christian left—which presses a critique of market capitalism as inherently tending to dissolve social bonds and separate us into haves and have-nots. Market capitalism is generally not explicitly defined, but seems to refer to an economy insofar as it is regulated solely by supply and demand. Market capitalism is thus a matter of more or less, not a binary. Both view the problem as one of the distribution of the means of production, and an out of control profit motive.
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