Capitalism is superior to Communism/Socialism

FACT CHECK My opponent seems to have been asleep for the past 28 years or so, because he said in his response: "Russia, one of the most powerful nations on the planet, follow socialism. It has a reasonably powerful economy, a powerful military, and its citizens enjoy the freedom that is equivalent to the U.S." Actually, Russia is capitalist, the Soviet Union fell apart in 1989, and afterward it became a Capitalist nation. So even though the government still owns a large chunk of the infrastructure, Vladimir Putin is working in privatising all that.{1} Also, China's growth has also been due to adopting Capitalist policies{2} What my opponent says next further demonstrates how ill-informed he is, he truly doesn't know his history and should open a history book some time in his life: "Chairman Mao, was much like Lenin. He was rightfully chosen/placed into his position by the people. Chairman Mao, never ordered the killing of 50 million. At the time China was struggling economically. But Chairman Mao also doubled the life span of an average Chinese citizen by 40 years." I don't even know where to start, maybe with how Mao DID in fact kill more people than any other dictator in world history.{3} Second of all, it isn't much of an election if only 1 person is running, so that Mao and Lenin and Stalin won the popular vote doesn't really mean anything since there was only 1 person on the ballot! Here are some more fact checks, I got bored going into specifics and providing quotations: 1. Sri Lanka is only partially communist. 2. Singapore is a Capitalist nation, not socialist state {4}RESPONSE ONEReally? Because looking back at the 20th Century, I find that the vast majority of injustice was actually committed by the state. During the 20th Century, the state has killed over 262 million people,{5} whilst the number of killed by individuals during the 20th century has amounted to only 8.5 million.{6} RESPONSE TWOThe more I read your argument the more I see erroneous errors that demonstrate your ill-information, let me first state that the Great Depression was NOT a failure of Capitalism, it was a failure of Government, Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize winning and world renounced economist said:{7}"There is hardly any view that is more widespread than the view that somehow or another the great depression was caused by a failure in private business..."Nothing could be farther from the truth, the Great Depression was produced by a failure of government, by a failure in monetary policy; it was produced by a failure of the Federal Reserve System, to act in accordance with the intentions of those who established it."Secondly, if the government is controlled by Wall Street, then this is Corporatism, not Capitalism. And ultimately Corporatism is just about the same as Socialism; it's when the industrial and business powers and the political powers are one and the same. This is simply another side to the same coin which we call Socialism. {1}. http://www.forbes.com... {2}. https://www.reference.com... {3}. http://www.independent.co.uk... {4}. https://www.reference.com... {5}. http://reason.com... {6}. http://necrometrics.com... {7}.