Can there be capitalism without the current form of corporate structures or legal "personhood"?

Question

Can there be a "non-corporate" capitalism in some way. Or at least a modified corporate structure system that isn't imbued with legal "personhood" and it's rights to influencing our real-person governmental and justice systems?

And before anyone puts forth the argument that "corporations are only people" actually they're legal and contractual structures (legal machines) created to indefinitely exist for the pure purpose of making profit, through removing all blocks to doing so, and limiting the liabilities of those benefiting. We don't give legal "personhood" to any other machines we create, why corps? Doing so seems to have given the fox the ability to run the hen-house.

Through legal "personhood" corporations gained access and influence to the very systems that are supposed to limit them, i.e. gov't, the legal system, etc. This gives these man-made "machines" the ability to remove and erode human constraints to profit making utilizing the very systems that should be limiting them.

Answer 1

Hey, the romans had capitalism of a type.  Even dictatorships and communist countries have had capitalism (they may call it the black market, but it is capitalism and its tolerated).  So, yes it can exist.  Our corporate structures just seek to make it easier and safer to do.