Omen says: well, it isnt, but the extremist title works better. Capitalism is not at fault nor can it be, being deviod of ethics. Capitalism is what we make of it, SDF replies: Well, no. Capitalism is a system for distributing the products of human labor; only capitalism performs this distribution through a ritual called money exchange. Money, as you already know, is a false commodity which everyone is ultimately made to depend upon, regardless of his or her productive virtues. It is this dependency which is the criticizable aspect of capitalism -- there's no way to get around our insatiable need for money, a need which is NOT "what we make of it."
Omen continues: and reason has turned it into the monster you see today. Reasong is a very important human aspect but when it is givin reign over the other human qualities like common sense, ethics, memory and intuition it turns society into the wounded beast you see today.
Theodor Adorno once said, to this point:
"Having broken its pledge to be as one with reality or at the point of realization, philosophy is obliged ruthlessly to criticize itself. Once upon a time, compared with sense perception and every kind of external experience, it was felt to be the very opposite of naivete; now it has objectively grown as naive in its turn as the seedy scholars feasting on subjective speculation seemed to Goethe, one hundred and fifty years ago. The introverted thought architect dwells behind the moon that is taken over by extroverted technicians. The conceptual shells that were to house the whole, according to philosophical custom, have in view of the immense expansion of society and of the strides made by positive natural science come to seem like relics of a simple barter economy amidst the late stage of industrial capitalism."
-from NEGATIVE DIALECTICS (translated by E.B. Ashton), p. 3
SDF explains: Randism exemplifies the primitivism of mere "reason" that Adorno illustrates so well in the above quote. What's at fault is not reason per se, but rather "reason's" refusal to criticize itself for its failure to understand modernity. "Reason," here in the scare-quotes, is thus reason hardened into ideologies, specifically the neurotic ideologies born of humanity's forced adaptation to capitalism. The Randists think they're pursuing reason, but what it really is that they're pursuing is a form of naivete having nothing to do with the technocratic reality of the present day. One can observe this in discussions that have been held within this Debating Room, where the Randists hold firm to their form of dogmatic weaseling despite all the trucks being driven day and night through the holes in their arguments.
The Randists would abstract "capitalism" from the world as it exists and hold the abstraction as equivalent to a "reality" that is really a medieval fairyland where everyone possessed of "reason" is a capitalist prince. Within Randist illogic, the technologies of today's era of microprocessing and mass communication are a mere formality to the capitalist-prince, and thus Randism can only serve today as a boast to be employed by successful entrepreneurs to impress the clientele with the illusion of philosophical depth. Randists therefore have nothing to say about the pressing realities of technocratic alienation, or about the culture industry (see the above link), or about the pending ecological crisis, i.e. topics wherein reason has a chance to criticize itself, as I have done here.
