On communism and capitalism

This afternoon I have been to a panel were American students discussed Communism. With my Chinese flatmate.

What I realised it that the word communism had a different meaning for all of us.

For American people it means having public schools and healthcare and a system where wealth is distributed by paying taxes each one proportionally to their wealth.
For me this is what is normal in Italy and we are not considered a communist country at all. However this things are ideal anyway because rich people don't pay taxes because they find tricks to fool the system.
Now if the guy who called himself a revolutionary and advocated revolution during the panel came to Italy and expressed these same ideas people would laugh at him.

I think it could be a good idea for the USA to become a normal country.
So people living in Italy would not be fooled by Berlusconi who managed to make us believe that there is a logic connection between being rich as the USA and having its system. The biggest deceit ever. Italy with the USA system is nothing but a dictatorship. We should have the same resources and sell more weapons and control other countries and taking their resources, or we should have had slavery or an empire like the British in the past: this is the key of being a rich country.
To put 80 per cent of the wealth in the hands of the rich people like it happens here without having too much wealth is just a dictatorship like any other. It is not the American dream. But if the world goes on without being aware of this deceit there will be very bad consequences. People getting poorer and poorer everywhere with just a handful of rich people around.

And another big deceit linked to the so called American dream is the idea of free market as a way to become a rich country. No way. At the beginning the USA adopted a very protectionistic system, as this article written by a Cambridge scholar says. Even the Civil war was fought not for abolition of slavery (????) but because the North wanted protectionism. And after years of protectionism (and the new slavery called immigration), when the economy was strong enough, it could become free. But imposing free market to poor countries now means just making their economy fall pray of the more powerful economies. A big deceit.

Talking about deceits. China. Well they are called communists but this means in reality that they have a totalitarian society where the rich people in power have ended up adopting a system which is even more capitalistic than anywhere else...almost as much capitalistic as slavery.

Communism should ideally mean that the interests that are put before anything else are the interests of the majority of the people. And this sound quite a lot like real democracy should be (did you know that democracy has never existed in the world because the rich people have always had the power and done their own interests preteding to be elected by the people?)
However I don't completely agree with the idea of Communism. It is still very selfish. Each one doing their own interests. This sounds quite similar to capitalism on a large scale. If we all the people in the world had the standard of living of rich Americans that would mean the end for everyone. Extintion.
The only interests human beings should be really pursuing are the interests of the children. Expecially those who are not born and cannot speak for themselves. This includes a fairer society were wealth is not so concentrated, but also a sustainable society, where happiness does not mean having money to buy useless things but living responsibly, trying not to do too much harm to other people and the planet.