a cool thing to do is to make a distinction between capital-istic and capital-ism

an organisation with an owner and employees making products, selling them, and seeking profits is a capitalistic structure. but it doesn't necessarily exist in a capitalism. this can be a plantation in ancient rome.

capitalism is the state-protected universalisation of capitalistic organisation. the state got rid of or transforms the commons, the guilds, aristocratic privledges, ecclesiastical power, etc.

where capitalism starts depends on if you want to wax protestant or municipal (and if you read protestant work ethic or arrighi) --prots northern europe, municipal italian city states