Letter 35
Capitalism, when fully mature and in control of a society turns all values into economic values.
Whether someone receives medical care turns on how much capital they possess.
Whether a child is properly educated depends on how much their family can pay for that education.
What work you do, and how you are compensated for doing it is dependent on how efficient you are at making more money for those who already own capital.
What laws are passed depends entirely on protecting and expanding the prerogatives of those who own sufficient capital.
Even markets themselves are not "free." They are established, and allowed to operate and exist only in such a way as to benefit those who already own capital.
The mature stage of capitalism is not "free markets." It is markets that are most efficient at seeing that capitalists acquire more capital. It ends in monopoly, maximized prices and minimized labor costs.