Well, from where I'm looking at, Capitalism doesn't work all that well or at least not for the working class anyway

This is Korea at night, note a central planning state controlled government to the north and a capitalist government to the south. Who do you think has the higher quality of life? Where would you rather live if given the choice?

No system works indefinitely. What happens is that sooner or later people carve out positions of privilege for themselves and devise systems for preserving this status and even carrying it forward into future generations. True capitalism should be immune to this phenomena since it's supposed to allow for innovation, free competition and business failures. But, as we're learning right now, that's not always something a civilization can withstand. Sometimes, the only way to fix it is to let it all crumble.

All the picture shows is that capitalism provides streetlights. Incidentally, I repair streetlights for a living, so I'm with you.

The link you posted is about North Korea. I can see comparing Capitalism to Countries that aren't a thorn in the side of most of the world, but not North Korea.

(Big Image) http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/multimedia/earth-at-night016.gif 98% of the Chinese have access to electricity. Russia's looking pretty well lit up too, and Cuba looks like you'd have to have denim curtains to get any sleep! It has nothing to do with capitalism vs socialism, fascism, or communism. North Korea is a totalitarian dictatorship where the people worship their leader as if he were a God. That type of government fails because eventually the leader dies. There's absolutely no comparison whatsoever.

there is only one true system, master and serf, all others are just parts of the whole.

The problem is, that the last 8 years we've been protecting the capitalistic system to the point that we've prevented the workers and thier needs from being protected. Free-market capitalism seems to demand government protection from their victims.

What a ridiculous question, if you can muster the time to read a book you will learn that there is an enormous gulf between socialist & communist & fascist. & Socialist countries are extremely successful, look at any European country! & lets face it the home of Capitalism (USA) isn’t exactly doing well right now.

I wasn't aware the US had a capitalistic system, at leat as it's defined by most Americans. Technically, it's Corporatist (neo-Fascist), which differs appreciably from Socialism (especially Fabian Socialism) only in its rhetoric. Of course the term "capitalist" has different meanings to different people. To most Americans, "capitalism" means a free market, free enterprise, private property, entrepreneurialism, and Laissez-Faire. But to the Marxists who actually coined the word, it means an economic system in which the owners of capital, especially the international financiers and international industrialists, dominate the economy and thus the society and the political system, and use their ever increasing economic power to manipulate the political power to further increase, or at least protect, their economic power. If you think the US is capitalist in the first sense, you're living in a dream world. It is however clearly capitalist in the second (Marxist) sense. But the fact is there's no real distinction in reality between that system and what prevails in purportedly Socialist and Communist countries, especially today. China, Vietnam, Japan, Germany, etc., are all essentially Corporatist.