<p>Pure capitalism leads to monopolies. It’s (gasp) government regulation that broke those up. Socialism is state-supported monopolies. There was no income tax, and 1800s America was protectionist (had tariffs) which isn’t even close to socialist. A lot of libertarians are protectionist.</p>
<p>The Soviet Union was the original communist country and was founded almost directly on the teachings of Karl Marx. “True” communism has never been tried because no one agrees on what that is, so I used the USSR because they were the first.</p>