title: Capitalism Must Die!: A Basic Introduction: What Capitalism Is, Why It Sucks, and How to Crush It
author:  Stephanie McMillan 
description: Stephanie McMillan, winner of the RFK Journalism Award (2012) and Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award (2010), is the creator of the comic strip <i>Minimum Security,</i> the editorial cartoon <i>Code Green,</i> and six previous books (including two graphic novels plus <i>The Beginning of the American Fall,</i> comics journalism about the Occupy movement, Seven Stories Press 2012).
zlib_text: Raymond Merriman – The Great Mutation and the Start of a New Era: Jupiter and Saturn
  POSTED ON DECEMBER 29, 2019
  Excerpt from Forecast 2020 Book1
  The main difference between capitalism and socialism is the extent of government intervention in the economy. A
  capitalist economic system is characterized by private ownership of assets and business. A capitalist economy
  relies on free-markets to determine price, incomes, wealth, and distribution of goods. A socialist economic system
  is characterized by greater government intervention to re-allocate resources in a more egalitarian way. – Tejvan
  Pettinger, “Capitalism vs Socialism,” October 28, 2017, https://www.economicshelp.org. 
  Whether you think capitalism is broken in the United States today depends on who you think the economy is
  supposed to work for. If it’s the shareholders and the CEOs, then capitalism is working just fine,
  thankyouverymuch. But if you think capitalism should also benefit the workers – the people who actually supply
  