Capitalism is a mode of production that formed by consuming other modes of production (regions which generally had more capital and usury control where they were highly developed for the time period) in the areas which constituted the main population centers and developments of civilization throughout history up until one millenia ago. West Asia, India, and China. Since then Europeans have engaged in a campaign of suffering so massive it threatens to extinguish not only ways of life but forms of life, entire damn categories of lifeforms.