Is Capitalism a form of warfare?

Yes, it seems to me like a form of gang warfare. No rules, the strong pick on the weak.

Not strictly speaking.

Why not? Basically it is make the goods and sell them, or distribute them and sell them. That's market, that's enterprise.

It can become predatory if the practitioners are dishonest and lie, cheat, steal, defraud.

If you consider capitalism as warfare, then why not socialism, communism, fascism or any other economic system.

The haves are always in a sort of warfare with with the havenots. but that would be using the term "warfare" very loosely.

Again loosely, there is such a thing as economic warfare. Japan has been practicing that in a sort of passive aggressive, politically correct way of getting back the the USA for Hiroshima for years.

Capitalism may contain warfare elements but I do not think it IS warfare. It can certainly be warfare-like, but I do not think it is accurate to equate capitalism generally with warfare.

Warfare is military action of one nation or region against another. Economic warfare is "an activity undertaken by a political unit (as a nation) to weaken or destroy another" (Webster's)

It’s not warfare, just business.

It is said that warfare is an extension to foreign diplomacy. When practiced across international borders, business can also be an extension of a country’s foreign relations efforts. So, capitalism and warfare have that much in common.

Free-market capitalism only seems threatening in places where the excessive economic planning of socialists is prevalent. These are the places where individuals are not free and have limited choices for their destinies. There, capitalism represents a peaceful disruption to the society’s structure and status quo--scary, difficult, and painful, but not warlike.

The answer depends on how you define 'capitalism' or 'warfare'. Yes, you can use it as a weapon to fight a group of people that you declare as being bad and your enemies, so that, in the end, you will have defeated them by using non-physical means like money.

All successful governments are. Sadly if a government is not willing to aimlessly waste a myriad of lives to show how powerful they are they will be destroyed by those who are. In a Capitalistic nation the government doesn't control the business so the only other way to show its dominance is through warfare to "Protect and serve its citizens"

Yes it is. But I would go further to say that in most cases the battles are fought between highly unequal forces on a global and national level.

NO more than communism is. Words are more powerful than bullets or bombs. Ideas can crush and kill. Look at how many movie stars and celebrities back ideas that were repulsive and wrong 10 years ago. Now they are the cool things to love. Not one bullet was fired to change your mind. It was all done with words.

Proof? Do you know anyone who wants to visit Cuba, or has no problem with socialized medicine? hmmmmmm... all done with words.

Some say:

Capitalism is a form of organized crime.

In capitalism the strong take it from the weak people.

Capitalism - is just another form of evil born within people :(

Some become so greedy, they don't want to earn money the fare way, so they come up with ideas to steal the money from others without being guilty >:( Capitalism is just one of them...

Capitalism is a lack of government control....there's absolutely nothing wrong about that.