What Does a Perfectly Working Capitalist Society Look Like?

Before capital started to circulate, there were landowners and landlords. We also know that there were bankers and financiers. So those are what he calls the anti-diluvian forms of capital which existed before industrial capital became significant. Now this is very different of course from what a real life capitalist society would look like. But I think it's a worthwhile exercise to go through because you get away from a tendency which exists on the left, which is to regard all of those other factions as parasites.