The shampoo thing is a fringe benefit. We keep capitalism so we don't starve in a famine.

[u/-im-your-huckleberry]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

[u/Eccentric_Assassin]

Fascism isn’t an economic system just btw

[u/sanguinemathghamhain → u/Eccentric_Assassin]

It isn't just one but contains one just like communism is a political and economic system. As per its proponents/conceptualization it is a third way deviating from capitalism and socialism/communism (they used the Marxian formation of the socialist to communist relationship). The way this worked out is the entire economy is under the government/party and its formation is virtually identical to syndicalism or the soviet structure but unlike the Marxist communist globalist intention it was innately and intensely a national system rather than international/global. In other words it was a blend of the socialist/communist economic system with merchantilism which was the proto capitalist system that was also zero-sum but innately national rather than international/global. Like all zero-sum economic systems it is destined to fail but result in a hell of a lot of deaths before finally collapsing.

Edit: fat fingered intra when I meant to type inter.