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Capitalism, on the other hand, is a social system based on the explicit recognition of private property and of nonaggressive, contractual exchanges between private property owners.
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How does private property become private? North America was collectively owned and then expropriated from a socialist collective, stripping the collective of their property rights at the barrel of a gun. The movement from system to another is unavoidably violent and unfair to some, beneficial to others. When countries go from capitalism to extreme socialism is inherently no different than what has happened historically when property rights are created out of thin air because someone has bigger guns. Neither system can be created without displacing what was there beforehand, generally via force of arms.
You go further in your presumptions, at least as I read them. Implying that private property rights can exist without a well developed collective legal and political system assumes that there is some sort of natural law that can be used to resolve all disputes between private property holders. Rights are only rights when a collective agrees to uphold them.