"When you are either supporting or criticizing something it helps to know precisely what that thing is. The issue I've found with much of my discourse with the right(both on this website and in the real world) as well as the left is that there is some confusion about what exactly Capitalism is."

Exactly. It's the same issue with criticizing socialism and communism. In my experience, "critics," and I surround it with quotes because their "criticisms" are frequently simplistic and cliche rather than elaborate or thought-out, almost invariably fail to know what they even are.