woofer: ah yes, that simply wonderful source of facts: wikipedia. The statist propaganda machine runs the Hegelian dialectic on all cylinders.
Abuses of a system does not equate a system. I'm for personal liberties, NOT state control over what I do with my resources, including capital.
Actually, within the history of The U.S.A., some of the most excellent events occurred due to the capitalist system. Cars were a product of purely capitalistic thought. The assembly line production of automobiles, as advanced by Henry Ford, caused his workers to have what was considered obscene wages. Across the board prosperity abounded across the nation. Private roads and bridges were built.
Then the Marxist plank of The Federal Reserve brought the nation to bankruptcy in twenty years. The roads and bridges were seized under the guise of public good. The interstate road system caused urban sprawl and enforced social engineering and welfare zones in the inner cities.
The money behind the rape of the capitalist system were all supporters of Marx and used socialism as the favorite tool of monopoly. Whatever abuses you impute to the capitalist system is automatically exponentially expanded by the statist system, in place, since Woodrow Wilson with his alter ego Colonel House came to power. The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. That's a fact Jack.
"When in doubt, empty the clip."