Quote from harrytrader:
Let's say you are back at school and you have a provocative professor who gives you as exercise to write an essay on this subject
"The system makes believe that Capitalism opposes Socialism. Now try to think out of the box by taking into account Human Nature and shows why and how Capitalism needs to promote Socialism and profit from it with the power of Money."
Human nature is that the male of the species seeks to acquire territory, both physical and metaphysical, in order to demonstrate his superior genes to the female. Capitalism is the "civilized" method of acquiring such territory, without resort to violent physical force as a means of achieving the acquisition.
Socialism is a contrary force that helps maintain the lesser genetically qualified population (i.e., the workers) from being reduced to being the absolute slaves of the capitalists. Socialism also helps prevent the violent revolution of the working class.
Money (which is the modern mechanism used to efficiently exchange territory) is like a magnet -- it sticks to other money. The more you have the more easily it is acquired. The 1930s depression is a testament to the fact that if you allow pure market forces to operate freely, and restrict the money supply from increasing per capita with the population increase, that eventually all of the money will flow into the hands of those at the top, and nothing will be left for the rest -- and the consequence is, economic collapse.
A pure capitalist system will cycle to extremes, which means poverty and violent revolution. A pure socialist system will prevent any economic cycle by removing the availability of profit for some at the expense of others, and this prevents the alpha males from achieving the superiority necessary to obtaining the genetically superior females. The consequence of this is also, revolution.
The conclusion, however, suggested by the poster's original question, i.e., that capitalism needs to promote socialism is also specious. Neither system needs the other. Promoting both systems is likely to smooth out the cycle of the rise and fall of civilization, but assuming that this cycle is a reasonably random operation of nature, then eventually, no matter how we may attempt to mitigate it, there will be a large swing to the downside, and civilization will collapse -- just as it has always done in the past.
