I have lived almost half of my life in a Socialistic country (socialism = communism lite) which was one of the countries in Ex-Yugoslavia. We separated by war(we wanted to separate peacefully, but the other side liked war more... especially if it's not waged on their land), and trough the following years became a Capitalistic country.
From personal experience, both systems are far from ideal, but capitalism is really beggining to show it's ugly face lately. While in socialism many things were censored, and there was lots of repression from the goverment, freedom in capitalism has become just a tool or an excuse for certain people with money to do repression on the others who have little money -> there is a forming of extremes - on one side wealthy people, and on other side poor ppl, ppl who are burdened with credits and so on. There is less and less middle class ppl.
While i cannot complain about my financial situation (middle class), i think capitalism is as bad as socialism was, and maybe worst in the terms that ppl have become less willing to help eachother. I think original communism would be the best system, but application of communism, or better said abuse of the theory of communism so far has given it a really bad name.
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