Kreeft on Capitalism and Communism

"Our whole economic system is based on the idea that a private evil can create a public good; that avarice (the profit motive) creates wealth and thereby happiness. From this point of view, our society's supposed opposite and enemy, communism, is only a different means to the same end. Its means are totalitarian, not free; but its end, like ours, is the production and consumption of wealth, of things." --Peter Kreeft, "Back to Virtue," p. 111.