Socialism and Communism are irrelevant, because they have never actually properly existed. They were a ruse of the banking/ruling class to head off actual republican revolutions. The whole topic sticks in my craw because this oddly timed wave of "anti-socialism" is promoted by the selfsame people. It's all theoretical, because in the absence of a free market, what we currently have can't properly be described as capitalism. There's no dilemma, all current forms of government are hopelessly dysfunctional, having been corrupted by the same families. Remember how every single US president in history was shown to be related to each other? They're also all related to European royalty. Marx- http://mileswmathis.com/marx.pdf Debs- http://mileswmathis.com/debs.pdf Hitler- http://mileswmathis.com/hiller.pdf Lenin (AND the Romonovs...) http://mileswmathis.com/lenin.pdf