[Comrade Ogilvy]

Capitalism is not the problem, human corruption is. All communism would do is destroy us with either the lazy few not willing to do thier part or the intlligent tyrant waiting for the perfect oppurtune time to strike us down.

[Subversive Rob]

I think this Marx quote provides the solution to the question:

Thus, the question whether capital is productive or not is absurd. Labour itself is productive only if absorbed into capital, where capital forms the basis of production, and where the capitalist is therefore in command of production. The productivity of labour becomes the productive force of capital just as the general exchange value of commodities fixes itself in money. Labour, such as it exists for itself in the worker in opposition to capital, that is, labour in its immediate being, separated from capital, is not productive. Nor does it ever become productive as an activity of the worker so long as it merely enters the simple, only formally transforming process of circulation.

Marx, The Grundrisse