I am not a communist, I do not defend communism, I just think it to be a better system than capitalism. I just don't want to explain because I have done it so many times in this forum...I already got tired. Plus, as said before, it would require a lot.

I don't wish to start giving pro-communist argumentations for the simple reason I can't see we are talking about the same thing, so this would lead to misunderstanding. And as explained before, it would take a lot of typing from my part. And no, frankly, I can't make short, concise simplifications. I was never good at that. I can cite my sources, not because I attempt to justify my opinion at verecundiam, but to attempt to explain this sources have been manipulated through history. And to be a pedant, and I'm damn good at that.

However, I can try to explain the problems in your views of capitalism. For example, this whole concept of freedom. The first step for freedom is to free the mind, if you are alienated you will never be really free. Capitalism needs to create this alienation, the market needs production, prduction needs consumers, thus we create a consumerist world, so we develop advertisments shoved down the throat of the citizens through all the damn place. Make them wish for things to buy, because this makes the corporations more succesful. And in capitalism, the corporations are the rulers. Whats the problem with being poor in capitalism? That you are forced to climb up for something superior, you are preassured constantly, everywhere, by precious smiling faces feeding you materialistic wish. If people don't consume, capitalism sinks. You are free to choose another type of life? How free? Consider for a moment how free is that person, how many possibilities of moving out of a crappy routinary life he or she has.

By the way, for capitalism to work, we need extreme inequality. Some people have to work for others to succeed, some people have to fail for others to succeed. If the competence fails, then thats good for you. In capitalist mindset, being poor is bad, because you are forced to work for someone, and probably your work will be alienating, in the end you will be not doing what you wish to do.

If you're lucky, then what you wish to do may be possible. But if what you wish to do is not rentable, then forget it. If the producer dosen't like the script of your movie because it won't be succesful- because you just wrote like Igmar Bergman and people want Vin Diesel- then go to hell. Are you a songwriter in the style of Leonard Cohen? I'm sorry, because we got another Ashlee Simpson at the door. And I think it's impossible to deny this happens. I know of many similar cases.

A mind is not always free. It develops in a society, the experience affects it. When the experience reduces and manipulates the conscience, you have to be very lucky to move away from it. That is called alienation. And that happens a lot in capitalism.