Capitalism, communism and socialism are the world’s three major economic systems. While the phrase “economic system” may seem like a yawn, countless people have fought and died in major wars ...

Stakeholder capitalism is communism in disguise In this Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018, file photo, two people walk behind the logo of the World Economic Forum at the meeting’s conference center in Davos ...

Communism has been tried in the Soviet Union (Russia), Eastern Europe, China, Vietnam and Cuba. Wherever it was tried, it was found wanting. It is the god that failed.

Coercion is not freedom, folks. But that is communism, at least it has been in the 20th and 21st centuries. It still is in China. Remember, I lived there for ten years.

The news media’s attitudes toward capitalism improved more than attitudes toward socialism or communism over time. In the 1960s, positive attitudes toward all three were roughly the same.

However, just because capitalism didn’t get a high positive score doesn’t mean that newspaper writers loved communism or socialism. In the 1940s, articles with those words also got relatively ...