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Communist governance of assimilated subjects is about the opposite of democratic governance over diverse states' free citizens.

Communist economies are about the opposite of free enterprise.

Capitalism is its own purely economic animal, perhaps directly opposed to a communist economy, but not the opposite of a communist government.

Really capitalism is not conceptully supposed to be a form of government to begin with, but it can snuggle up to any government from democracy to communism to monarchy and anything in between.

And there you go.

As an "ism" capitalism has been with us since prehistoric times, any actual governance it accomplishes is effectively done by the different types of political systems it has operated with, that have come and gone over the millennia.

Sometimes the strength of the capital is greater than the resources or political will of the government in power at the time, sometimes not. Debt can distort this balance.

As we have seen.