>>723818052
I'm going to oversimply things and I'm not by any means an expert.
Capitialism:
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
This currently is not the case. Its a combination of governments incentive, private equity and business interests converging to create profitable enterprise. The means of production are not fully in control of private owners, as most don't have the money to actually start anything. Its all debt. In reality, the owners of the means of production are private equity. The engine driving our societies is not capital, its debt. Blackrock and Vanguard own the means of production and are the entities capable of capitalism. No one person "owns" Amazon, Jeff Bezos only owns 10% and the rest is private equity. Small businesses are an exception but they are dying.
Communism is not really a system, its a critique of capitalism and it's failings with a prediction of what comes next. Marx was absolutely correct about the failings. The issue is that he was a loser neet and his solutions/predictions had little basis in reality, they were ideals. So far Marx has been right, capitalism has created the infrastructure for communism to take place and capital has become collective among private equity. If we follow his ultimate prediction and the workers revolt creating a society where everyone's needs are met, who will manage it? Will we grow as a society with no challenges? This is the classic problem of Marx's critique.
In summary, we don't live in either of these systems. Whether it was organic or not, we arrived to capitalism after feudalism because the capitalist system produced more works and solved more of society's problems at a macro scale. We live in a brave new world.
