&gt; Capitalism is not the perfect system, it&#x27;s better than the alternatives<p>This is really not generally true. I would gladly take socialism in the Czechoslovakia over capitalism in some third world country (say Pinochet&#x27;s Chile). Capitalism worked very well in the West after the WWII, but that system had strong elements of socialism, too. But it&#x27;s important to realize that for many third world countries, capitalism was <i>not</i> a success.<p>On the other hand, what was generally successful was democratic governance (maybe with exception of India and China). This is often conflated with (real world) capitalism (and dictatorship with socialism). But they really are pretty much orthogonal ideological axes.