This facility very succinctly investigates, assesses, and especially compares the attributes of capitalism and participatory economics. Obviously no part of this presentation is remotely comprehensive. No one should be convinced by what appears here, alone. On the other hand, hopefully all parts of this facility do raise useful points of comparison and will provide food for thought and engender interest in more complete presentations that can be found at the parecon site.

One interesting possibility for these "comparison pages" is that readers improve their contents.

• Many of the entries could use some statistical or other supporting evidence.
• Many entries would benefit from having some links to sources of more information.
• In places, rewrites might help too, for clarity, etc.

Users who wish to send such proposed improvements, should please do so. Please send to sysop@zmag.org.

As to utilizing the comparisons:

• For any category listed to the right click the link. 
• On this page you will then see a table with cells including summary information for each system for that category as well as summary evaluative commentary and some links to investigate further.