Democracy, Capitalism, Mutualism

Democracy combines Equality and Freedom, the actualization of which is more Art than either Science or Dialectical Necessity.  Now, Capitalism entails Freedom, but not Equality.  In contrast, the fundamental element of Proudhon's Mutualism, the voluntary and equitable Exchange, entails both Freedom and Equality.  Thus, despite the deeply ingrained, especially in the U. S., synonymity of Democracy and Capitalism, it is Mutualism, not the latter, that is the Economic system that is more appropriate to the former.