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You seem to just be using your own definitions of capitalism and communism. It's probably not worth bickering much about, but what you're saying doesn't make sense. Not in the way where I think you're wrong and I disagree, in the way that your argument isn't coherent enough to refute.
If anything, that's my core point. Whatever definition you try to put on capitalism or communism, you won't find it practiced like that. Our economies are dictated by legislation, executive orders, judicial decisions, corporate actions both inside and outside the law. Labels like capitalism and communism are more window dressing than actual function.
Which is my position regarding people saying "this is capitalism."
Nah fam. There's no point in labeling sets of ideas if they're rendered useless the moment they diverge from your imagined "pure" form. Being more complicated in practice than just a simple textbook definition doesn't mean they aren't "that" defined thing, it means textbook definitions are always fundamentally weak and flawed. Oversimplifications, models used to describe, not blueprints used to build.
Capitalism is roughly everywhere, underpinning everything globally because of its roaring success. Communism is roughly nowhere, for the same reasons of capitalism's overwhelming power.
The distinctions exist and matter.
Finland and Russia are neighbors, both democratic capitalist societies.
"Democratic", now there is a very slippery word in any country lol. Regardless, Russia is not communist, I don't know what you think you're pointing out. Let's go ahead and drop it yeah?