Strange, doesn't your school teach you this stuff in history classes? The reason I ask, is because when I was in school, they taught this stuff in our classes. And we were required by law to take SAT's, to prove that we were learning the material, in order to graduate high school.
I would never consider myself a capitalist. Cause everytime I think of that word, I think of USA's unfettered capitalism, that results in small companies, becoming greedy corporations, and eventually global dominators.
There is nothing wrong making some money by providing a service or selling a product. But if your soul mission in life is to only make money, well, its my view you have lost site of the important things in life.
I look at celebrities the same exact way. If their soul mission is just to become super famous and rich, I'd say they lost focus. Its in my opinion, that if you become an actor, the goal should be to act, because you like acting.
And yes, I also agree that with many countries in the world, you have many government systems in place. You have democracies, dictatoriships, socialism, anti-socialism. You got all types, its quite interesting.
And whats even more interesting, is you got Americans born in America, with democratic freedoms including socialism to an extent. Yet some of those same Americans, like to speak out against socialism.
And where I think that is so hypocritical, is that eventually when these same people get old and frail and need government assistance. Their free to speak out against socialism, but when they need social security, oh they are totally onboard with that.
So ya, the social and economical dynamics within ones own country can be quite interesting and challenging, much less talking about other's countries systems lol.