Dominant system in the Republic of North Macedonia: Socialism or capitalism?

The vast majority of explanations of capitalist and socialist systems are based on their contradictory features. However, on a general historical and theoretical level, there are some similarities between both families of a system obtained throughout the process of their co-evolution. Therefore, as a result of these similarities, even today, most confuse their economic concepts. Such confusion rightly stimulates our research interest to understand some basic categories within the political culture of citizens in North Macedonia, i.e., understanding its homogenization level (whether it is low or high), which is a necessary precondition for the basic consensus in society. The research, based on the distribution of social wealth and product, and private property and market ownership, through the survey, will measure the attitude of citizens towards the old and new social order, respectively, towards socialism and capitalism. To accomplish this survey by not asking correspondents direct questions, through some indicative questions, we will focus on the constituent features of these two systems, such as justice, humanity, the concentration of capital, and property distribution. These are also elements of a fundamental difference between socialism and capitalism, both in theory and social practice. The results will prove the hypothesis that in the Republic of North Macedonia, we can not have a clear picture of the dominant system, as we have a combined mosaic that to some extent is in favor of the new capitalist system, but without many economic prospects.