User blog comment:Centrist16/SOMETHING EVERYONE MUST KNOW/@comment-3398633-20150809140026/@comment-3993996-20150809220519

In all fairness SWM, both systems have been assigned various goals and purposes by different stripes of people. In my opinion, capitalisms goal is to have the means of production privately owned, and socialism publicly owned. Depending on you ideology public and private ownership can mean different things, meaning you have different goals -eg. an anarchist may see government owned businesses as being a private means of production whereas a libertarian may see it as a public MoP. Depending on how you define capitalism/socialism, you can measure the success of their "goals" (in my opinion none have succeeded in an "orthodox" form).