Oui j ' ai bien aim , c ' est drlessrieux en mme temps . j ' aime bien le previously on qui est en musique aussi , c ' est original . <| sep |> Karl Marx seemed to think about it pretty hard , and he thought capitalism was a pretty successful system . Furthermore socialism is definitely not quite the opposite of authoritarianism . One can either have authoritarian socialism , nonauthoritarian socialism , or some compromise between the two . Furthermore the goal of the free market or even the end result of free market capitalism isn ' t to keep everyone free , it ' s to keep the market free for those who wish to make use of it . Pinochet instituted free market economics into his authoritarian system for instance . And your idea of taking a poll is hilarious as if that would tell you anything . Isn ' t the whole point to see the comparisons between two systems and then judge the outcomes of the systems on an a priori basis ? I mean , I can ' t exactly see how much better or worse my life is going to be if I , for instance , went to a different school or had different parents . I similarly can ' t see how much better or worse my life would be in a capitalist or socialist society I could guess , but frankly I ' m not smart enough to do it accurately , and neither are most of the people you ' d be polling . Yes a new alternative to capitalism needs to be found . Marx knew this . Anyone looking without bias at the current state of affairs knows this . But to not respect capitalism , at least in some senses , probably means one does not understand it .