USSR was dysfunctional for many reasons, the least important of them was economic system, the most was that it was a totalitarian state with no way to change th

USSR was dysfunctional for many reasons, the least important of them was economic system, the most was that it was a totalitarian state with no way to change the government. It was shooting its own citizens and starving them to death in millions (and not because it had to - it was simply "better" for their policies). I agree communism doesn't work, but these particular problems can and did happen just as well in other economic systems too - see British starving Ireland or India for capitalist examples. On the other hand there are socialist countries that are quite heavily regulated and perfectly fine - see Scandinavia and part of western Europe. The important part about modern democratic countries isn't that they are capitalist. It's that they are democratic and have rule of law and a way to change the government. I'm focusing on this because I see many democratic countries turn illiberal and autocratic over time thinking they will be ok because capitalism will save them.