Edited sentence: (see socialism).Although capitalism has maintained stability in many countries for a long time, some argue that it is counterproductive to waste so many resources on maintaining the equilibrium.Both capitalist and socialist democracies favor one vote per person arrangements, but they differ in that socialist democracy includes only a single all-encompassing class of people, while capitalist democracy divides the population into two or three classes.Capital is currency, a method of representing the sum of one’s material property for use in trade.Capital is distributed to each class such that each class’s percentage of the capital is inversely proportional to its population size.Guy Ankerl,Beyond Monopoly Capitalism and Monopoly Socialism, Cambridge MA: Schenkman, 1978.Many who criticize capitalism are socialists, who believe in only a single class.Others argue that the system is unfair because it arbitrarily selects those who have capital and those who do not, and those who have capital live more luxuriously.Since capital is concentrated in the highest class, known as the capital class, equilibrium is achieved between the working class and the capital class.Since the class with the largest population, the working class, is naturally the most powerful class, capital is created as an artificial form of power.Sometimes there is also a middle class.The defining characteristic of capitalism is, of course, its usage of capital.The highest social class consists of the fewest people.The lowest social class consists of the most people.The purpose of this distribution is to even out the balance of power between the classes.Though forms of capitalism exist in monarchical states, the term gains true meaning when applied to a democratic system.Without this delicate balance, capitalism would fail