See this is the issue, im smart enough to not measure a system based on their so called values but their actions.
Saying you should treat an ideology based on their values then we ought to say Republican party is about "family values" "fiscal responsibility" "individual freedom" and "rule of law", because that's the shit Republicans always preach about but their actions are the direct opposite.
Here we go again, diving back into your complete lack of political theory.
Socialism has virtually never been allowed to develop organically like capitalism was for hundreds of years. The United States was allowed to freely develop
capitalism, and was allowed to industrialize freely, for hundreds of years. Because of its material circumstances, like serfdom and the enlightenment not taking hold in Russia, Russia started the 20th century as an agrarian backwater. A few decades later, it was the second largest economy on earth and the world's second nuclear power. Then the capitalist nations of the world waged all out economic war and even threatened nuclear war to stop communism from spreading. Virtually every communist project that has ever existed, existed under constant threat of invasion, economic isolation, and annihilation. But yet, you talk like these communist projects were allowed to exist in a petri dish and failed on their own merits.
If capitalism is so great - why have former soviet bloc countries absolutely collapsed under it? After the USSR fell and it's former members adopted capitalism, why did life expectancy and virtually all quality of life indicators absolutely plummet? What happened after Allende in Chile? How come the most extreme capitalist "shock therapy" absolutely destroyed Chile?
I know Ezra Klein hasn't written about this stuff, so it's probably going to be REALLY hard for you to answer.