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I'm not sure what prompted the question, but it is interesting nonetheless.

One theory as to why the US worked as an experiment is that it was the first to guarantee a persons right to be secure in their property.

Basically, we finally acknowledged that people are greedy, and that it is okay because they do what is in their self-interest.

Fine.

So the question is, which system is more entropic? Depends on what kind of chaos you want. Capitalism relies on the incentive for all people to find a need people have and fill it. It doesn't discriminate on the morality of that need, but even so, capitalism sees the evaluation of society's needs as a need unto itself.

Marxism operates under the assumption that people put their needs aside for the good of other people. The idea here is that the needs will be addressed by somebody elses idea of what the needs are going to be for a society. So I guess the degree of entropy in a marxist society is proportional to the gap between the needs you planned for, and the needs you didn't.

In a capitalist world, there is no need that doesn't really go unfulfilled. In a marxist world, there is quite a lot of needs that go unheeded.

Marxism gives you apparent order like a can of shaken up soda pop does. Pull the tab and you get a snootfull of soda pop.