”communism” vs ”capitalism” is just the left vs right spectra made into countries

Alan Fiske, anthropologist, recognized three distinct categories of human relationships across the worlds cultures, dominance, communality and reciprocity. The left-vs-right construct is two of these relationship types, communality and reciprocity, being selected for by a "tug of war". The ideal of competing ideologies allows values from both communality and reciprocity to be selected for by society.

The competition between regional organization and global organization, has led to that entire countries were labelled as ideologies, essentially. The USA was labelled "capitalist" ("right wing") whereas the USSR was allegedly "communist" ("left wing"). The latter isn't true, since the USSR wasn't even a democracy but instead used the same organizational structure as the UN does, very poorly designed. But it pretended to be "left wing".

At the end of the day, both communality and reciprocity are important, and society needs aspects of both. Neither extreme is any good, and taking pride in being the extreme of either isn't any good either.

With the digitalization of the nation-state, I think more ideas from the left and the right (communality and reciprocity) will be able to flourish. More of both, requiring less of a compromise between the two as has been common historically in the history of the nation-state.