The Loyalist exodus, economically speaking, served partially to finance the expenditures of the Revolutionary war. Some Historians count them 50,000 people and divide them into two branches: fervent and mild loyalists.
Still, in economics, The people must be able to generate wealth in a sustainable (constant) way to achieve a more equitable distribution of wealth in any given country.
The main way how Marxism differs from capitalism is through a lack of a free market economy where natural competition between people who would produce something and people who would consume something would dictate the price and availability of goods.