This is standard anti-capitalist logic. Somebody is doing something bad. They're participating in the overwhelmingly dominant economic system of our time (capitalism). Therefore capitalism must be the root of the problem. It doesn't matter that non-capitalists have historically done similar things.
Curiously, they never use the same logic when referring to positive effects of capitalism like a boom in life expectancy and reduction in poverty. That's simply an inevitable consequence of technology. It doesn't matter that the only reason people have the economic means to acquire such technology is due to capitalism.
> Curiously, they never use the same logic when referring to positive effects of capitalism like a boom in life expectancy and reduction in poverty.
Bullshit. I am perfectly happy to give capitalism credit where it works well, and so do most people other than extreme leftists.
Meanwhile, people defending capitalism seem to do this much more often: Capitalism does something good -> all hail capitalism, for it can do no wrong; something bad happens under capitalism? Literally anything else is to blame, specially communists.
Curiously, they never use the same logic when referring to positive effects of capitalism like a boom in life expectancy and reduction in poverty. That's simply an inevitable consequence of technology. It doesn't matter that the only reason people have the economic means to acquire such technology is due to capitalism.