No form of government is perfect; all are corrupt. But I do believe that capitalism partnered with some form of democracy offers the best possibilities. Of course, we do not have capitalism in the West today. We have heavily taxed welfare redistributing socialism. Personally, I think welfare should be limited and temporary - and that if one accepts it, one should give up the right to vote - because otherwise, those on handouts will always strangulate the system by voting for ever increasing handouts. Communism, in a pure, ideal form, is just an extreme version in which there would be no Makers left for the Takers to steal from, because if you remove the incentives for hard work, very few will work hard just because they are altruistic or they love their job. The failures of communism are obvious in Russia and China today, both run by wealthy oligarchs benefiting from capitalism...