Because it creates a very large disparities.
Socialists don’t stand for reforms but for revolution, a revolution to abolish the wages system and establish a classless society.
No, Socialists and Progressives have very different goals. Socialists seek to change the economic system of from capitalism to socialism. Progressives seek to reform the capitalist system to make it more just, without questioning the fundamentals of capitalism or challenging the legitimacy of private property and the profits system.
By ‘capitalist workers’, I assume you mean workers who support capitalism. Most of them probably don’t have the slightest understanding of Socialism (a classless stateless society based on production for use), and see no alternative to capitalism.
It is a matter of Communists disliking the capitalist system, not individual capitalists. Capitalism involves exploitation, inequality and poverty; it is also unnecessary, as a society based on common ownership and production for use could produce more than enough for everyone.
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A capitalist system was the goal that was supported by the socialists but not by one Samuel Gompers.
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Capitalism is an economic system. Mercantilism is trading.