It would pretty damn lol if the world's governments suddenly put out a joint press release saying 'We kindly thank the people of this planet for their participation in our centuries-long experiment to sort the planet's greedy scum from its other residents, allowing us to exterminate as appropriate. Special thanks go to Adam Smith, for providing such a convincing fictional account of world markets, which he created for the purpose of starting this experiment by drawing the less humane classes into a war for capital, and to Ayn Rand for her literary efforts dedicated towards saving the project from premature collapse when a few Russian participants attempted to end the experiment before all of the human scum could be identified. Executions will begin with former management of Lehmann Brothers at 12pm Thursday'.
Though as the guy above said, it really isn't an all-or-nothing choice, and Kwa's greatest weakness at the moment is that it's being portrayed in that manner, as though any government intervention = full-blown communism. When you get down to it, Scandinavia is a capitalist system, as is Australia, and yet we enjoy welfare and healthcare that the US lacks for fear of 'THE COMMUNISTTS!!!!!'. Moreover, such intervention actually HELPS the capitalist system over here, by filling investment gaps that the free market relies upon, but which are uneconomic for any one company to fill privately (e.g. investing in human capital through education, welfare and healthcare). Reaping the benefits of that kind of intervention doesn't mean that you don't see the need to allow the market to allocate resources to industries that have competitive advantages while letting uncompetitive industries fall.
Oddly enough, the US (even the US right) seems really into the latter kind of intervention - bailing out the 'too big to fail' banks, subsidising their agriculture to truly insane levels, protectionist manufacturing policies, etc. It seems that they're fine with 'socialism' when it benefits companies and harms consumers/taxpayers, but rage if anyone suggests intervention that benefits consumers.