"The best system devised has been capitalism combined with representative demoeracy."

If you had read and understood my original post, you might have noted I am discussing the fact unregulated capitalism does not work, and large private companies are now beginning to dictate policy. This is NOT "representative demoeracy" (sic), it's a new system where power lies with unelected, unaccountable people whose responsibility is to their shareholders and not the common good.


"Sweden is in fact heavily dependent on mostly large Swedish capitalists to fund its welfare state."

It's called 'tax' and it's the fact large companies are avoiding it here and in the US that we're discussing. How do you think anything is funded?


"No purely socialist system has ever worked"

No purely socialist system has ever been tried.