I think its better to explore paths. You don't have to commit to any particular path, but understanding the path is helpful. To deny capitalism is a problem also means one is lost. I don't know enough to argue for or against free market capitalism but I also recognize that actually not much would change under a socialized system either. Neither in my opinion seem very great. In my observation it does appear to be more of a problem with the money system than the economic system but they are so intertwined it is sometimes difficult to find clear lines between both.

My view is you cannot build any economic system on top of a broken money system and until that is fixed I am not sure we can even have an honest debate about how the economic system can work because there has been no point in history where it has worked for any sustainable amount of time, no matter the *.ism.

Thanks for the links, I will check them out.