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Chairman-Mao said:

Capitalism is the only economic system that gives all people an equal opportunity to succeed.

That is so much bullshit, and I hope you are only trying to bullshit others rather than having successfully bullshitted yourself.

You can make the valid argument that capitalism gives people the opportunity to succeed, but in no way does it give people equal opportunities.  On the contrary, socialism strives to give people equal opportunity, with programs like socialized education, while capitalism promotes unequal opportunity.  Surely, no sane person would make the argument that the son of a million dollar a year salary CEO who goes to private school and will inherit his father's business with he graduates has an equal opportunity with the son of a single mother living in the ghetto who is working at Wal-Mart to pay his way through college.