I am in a particularly anti-communist mood today.

DEATH TO EVIL COMMUNISM!!!!!DESTROY THE COMMUNIST PARTY IN ALL CORNERS OF THE GLOBE!!!!!DOWN WITH EVIL BLOOD SUCKING COMMIES! LONG LIVE AND GOD BLESS DEMOCRACY AND CAPITALISM!!!!!!!! GOD BLESS THE USA! USA! USA! THE SOVIET UNION DESTROYED A GREAT CULTURE AS CHINA CONTINUES TO DO TODAY!!!!!!!!!! REAGAN WAS AWESOME!!! REAGAN! REAGAN! REAGAN! REAGAN! REAGAN!!!!!! DOWN WITH BLOOD SUCKING EVIL COMMIES YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"I hate Communism."-Me.
"I hate Fascism." -Me.
"You are Alive. So live." -Tomi Miyasaki
"Our logic is to be illogical. That is our advantage." -Captain James Kirk

I personally am a fan of capitalism. Yet I can see the merits of communism and socialism. It's a good idea in theory for all people to have everything they need, but I disagree with many aspects of it. I definitely don't think it's evil though. Oh and Reagan was a terrible terrible president.

I generally think the lines we draw between capitalism and communism are slightly arbitrary and only lead us to push toward the poles.
Mixed systems tend to be the reality, regardless of starting points. Government has certain purposes. Societies have certain purposes. They are met or there is revolution or tyranny or something ugly.
Of course in general terms mixed systems are capitalist in that the government does not command the means of production.
But I'd also claim China is a mixed system. The government commands the means of production but also does not provide for its people.
I'll take capitalism with a welfare state anyday. Communism without one is about as ugly as you can get economy-wise.

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The Tall Man, Phantasm III

Agreed! Capitalism with a welfare state it is.