The right to be a capitalist is predicated upon the moral concept of the individual's right to life. 

If you seek to refute this concept, you will have to come finally to the conclusion that men can live only by permission of the state (government, or a monarch, or a dictator) and may have only what the state and it's agents say they may have, and may do only what the state says they may do.

This would mean that men can not be free.  Indeed, it would mean that men would have to stop being what they are: decision makers; thus relegating this (decision-making) function to other men (acting under the mantle of government) who really have no more rights than they do.

Clearly, we see that private capitalism is predicted on moral (true) principles.

Further, we can see that the opposite of private capitalism - socialism and it's philosophical brethren, is predicated on principles that are NOT true - and are therefore not moral.

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