Instead of successful competition, we call it unfair domination. Instead of a winner, we call him an oppressor. Capitalism is a game of hierarchy and power, but this is a game no one is allowed to win. I want to know when it was written that successful capitalists must be stopped at all costs. It seems a contradiction between the moral platform of our economy and its practical execution.
Capitalism is about winning, and about dominating and controlling the market.
We are supposed to create better products, build better gadgets, invent the best ideas, beat down our competitors. We love the little guy who starts up small and makes it big, but when he gets too big, our secret socialist guilt takes over, and we have to pound him back down. It's the way we rationalize capitalism, the way we make it palatable, the way we deal with the fact that capitalism creates a large class of oppressed workers, demands a constantly expanding market, encourages cutthroat competition, the fact that capitalism creates victims, losers, defeats, and exploitation. We deal with the evils of capitalism by villainizing capitalists, even while we enjoy the fruits of their labors. Marxism did have an effect, if not in the overall structure of our economy then at least in the way we think about it.