I think it is part of the divide and conquer strategy that has been employed effectively by the elite for centuries. Capitalism/socialism, conservative/liberal, right/left, North/South, Chevy/Ford etc. all aid in keeping the focus off the men behind the curtain who control the money system. In short, ‘capitalism,’ the private control of money, takes all the credit and most of the wealth provided by free-enterprise which is harnessed to the money system. Capitalism created socialism as a foil to take free-enterprise away completely in case it gets too unruly. I say the badly defined isms are a fraud.

Instead we must implement a public money system and take their private money system away leaving free-enterprise without a parasite on its back directing all the wealth to a few. History shows us that the origination of all money exclusively for social spending of the people’s money for the benefit of the people and their places, is democracy. No one has conceived of socialism that way and there are many socialists who would probably oppose it anyway ….and it deserves no such honor imo. Read the struggle of people who were onto the money issue, like Proudhon, Gesell and Soddy and read their stories of the problems they had with socialists and public banking proponents. Read T.V. Powderly’s account in ’30 Years of Labor’ of the take over of the Knights of Labor and the destruction of the labor movement.

Capitalists were able to get support for their agenda by secretly applying money to various individuals, groups and organizations and getting them on board for their own reasons. Socialists were duped into helping get the income tax and the Fed passed in 1913 and 2 years later mandatory mass schooling with the ‘school men’ designing the curriculum which had nothing to do with education and everything to do with taking people who saw themselves as producers and turning them into consumers along with obedience and conformity training of the work force. This was to guarantee compliant workers and a market for the massive industrial investment they were about to make. And Bernays had just given them mass psychology so they would no longer have to make what people wanted but could make people want whatever they made and it was amply applied across the political economy with the school system being one of the largest consumers of psychological services. Schooling is something they give you, education is something you give yourself.