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Social Democracy Versus Communism?
The main dividing line, I think that you want to talk about and work through in the book, it's not communism versus capitalism. There seems to be a very strong thing that too much income redistribution is in some sense unfair. My left-wing friends are truly totally offended by one relatively poor guy in Wichita actually getting a cell phone they didn't pay for because George W. Bush pushed through this program. That seemed to fail its sustainability test in the global north at least in the 1970s.