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> Or do you think non capitalist systems don't have laws and a group of dictators must be at the top?

Empirically, for 100% of the sample size, socialist systems always turned into dictatorships after a few years at most.

Empirically, there are plenty of democratic socialist countries

For example?

> Empirically, there are plenty of democratic socialist countries

Capitalism + regulation + social safety net != socialism.

That is indeed what US and Western European media have been repeating for decades. It doesn’t necessarily match the people’s experience.