Capitalism, Freedom, Passion

First devised by Smith, Capitalism is a special case of Empiricism, and, in particular, the concept of Freedom that it entails is inherited from Hume's.  Now, according to latter, 'Freedom' is not uncaused, but is internally determined behavior, as opposed to externally conditioned.  However, that concept is open to the Spinozist challenge that because Empiricism accepts sense-data at face-value, it lacks a criterion for distinguishing 'free' from conditioned behavior.  Indeed, Hume's own terminology implicitly acknowledges the soundness of that challenge.  For, on his analysis, Passion, not Reason, as Spinoza asserts, is the ground of self-determination.  But, 'passion' plainly connotes 'passivity', thereby reinforcing the charge that presumed Humean 'freedom' is actually a moment in a conditioned behavioral sequence.  Thus, the concept of 'Freedom' that is assumed in Capitalist theory is similarly nugatory, i. e. no behavior that it denotes can be accepted as 'free' at face-value.