> By definition trade in capitalism is done willing.
Not by the definition used by the people who named and defined capitalism.
It's true that after that, the conceit that capitalism involved only voluntary, uncoerced trade was adopted by it's defenders as a rationalization of the system, but that was not true of either the specific real world systems for which the name “capitalism” was coined to refer or subsequent real world examples, and certainly has nothing to do with the definition of capitalism.
If you want to distinguish the proposed scenario from capitalism, it would be in that it does not involve private property rights in the means of production, but instead on their forcible seizure and defense, but that's a slippery distinction because commonly such systems evolve into a degree of legitimization and trade with recognized rights between the parties, and the roots of capitalist property also start in forcible seizure which is later legitimized.
> If someone living today called themselves a capitalist would you expect them to be involved in "forcible seizure and defence"?
Given the diversification most capitalists have and looking at what major corporations do globally, yes, though I'd also expect them not to think of themselves that way.
Drug cartel leaders, I'm sure, often have similar self-serving rationalizations of their role.
From related portions of the economy: given the growing use of debtor's prisons, predatory loans, and coercive tactics including armed repossession & bounty hunting dependent on an exploitive for-profit bond regime? Yes. These are not companies rejected by modern capitalism. On a higher economic level private equity's leveraged buyouts are very frequently hostile takeovers that use a company's own resources to seize control of it.
> By definition trade in capitalism is done willing.
The definition of capitalism, and the world in which capitalism operates, are different.
The final transaction between buyer and seller is voluntary.
But all of the backend infrastructure may be highly manipulated in unethical, forceful ways.
A person buying some whale meat willingly pays the merchant at the meat market.
But that whale meat was acquired because one group killed the whale before another group. And that group killed the whale first because they setup groups who threatened other would-be whale hunters, and as this group gained a bit of financial traction they paid off local officials to pass some “coastal safety” ordinances that provide them some level of monopoly on killing whales, and worked out another ordinance that lets them dump toxic byproduct in a local river to place some of their cost into the public that won’t be easily rectified for decades.
So a perfectly ethical capitalist fisherman might well find themselves facing men with guns who forcefully prevent them from competing, when the police show up to enforce the local coastal safety law.
Not by the definition used by the people who named and defined capitalism.
It's true that after that, the conceit that capitalism involved only voluntary, uncoerced trade was adopted by it's defenders as a rationalization of the system, but that was not true of either the specific real world systems for which the name “capitalism” was coined to refer or subsequent real world examples, and certainly has nothing to do with the definition of capitalism.
If you want to distinguish the proposed scenario from capitalism, it would be in that it does not involve private property rights in the means of production, but instead on their forcible seizure and defense, but that's a slippery distinction because commonly such systems evolve into a degree of legitimization and trade with recognized rights between the parties, and the roots of capitalist property also start in forcible seizure which is later legitimized.