You think that capitalism doesn't cost lives or personal freedoms (*cough*Vietnam*). Sure, ill agree with you, communist russia was pretty bad, it didn't give its people a choice, it let its astronauts die because it couldnt be bothered to test the landing parachutes properly. But the good parts of commmunism, the ones that dont cost personal freedoms or lives we call 'socialism', these are the parst that lessen the rich-poor gap and give the impoverished a voice and a chance while still maintining an effective democratic system (i.e balanced, effective political parties). For example, the socialist parties in Britian and Australia (i dont know about america).