Edited sentence: A country with free market doesnt necesarilly have to be capitalist, while a country with a centrally planned economy doesn't necesarily have to be socialist.And there is another group which is usually regulated by the government to keep the country selfsufficient.Both systems are superior in some branches while inferior in others.Centrally planned economy works best where market failures occur.Cuba has moved towards free market keeping socialism, this is another example.Free Market works best were it is hard for a government to plan, where supply and demand commands the market and is able to secure people's needs.Other examples of branches that work best when nationalised are: national security, fire fighting, power plants, water works, housing....Simply said, socialism serves the people, capitalism serves the economy.Some examples are: Car factories,.Some socialists accuse the USSR, in the Stalin era, of being a capitalist state, because its workers were forced to work hard and economic growth came at the cost of millions of human lives.Such a country would be capitalist even though keeping the fop in their hands.Suppying the people with health care and education works best when the majority of schools universities and hospitals is state-owned.These are mostly consumer goods.Usually private-owned.While there is no "purely" free market, nor a "purely" centrally planned economy, there are countless possibilities of mixtures of both systems.You can have a country where most factors of production are state-owned, with no regulations giving workers minimum wages and with no social securities, where all resources would be focused on economic growth.agriculture, arms factories,...