Alternative to capitalism?

Is there an alternative to capitalism? Lets ask Google and see what comes up. I try to pick the most organized articles and the most concrete sentences. The reader can check the context himself to see if I have manipulated any message to fit my "cause":

Workers World Party: What's the alternative to capitalism? "Just asking the question leads to a discussion of socialism--a society where production can be planned to meet human needs because it has been broken out of the stranglehold of private ownership." ... "What gives [the rulers] nightmares is the fear that the workers who built the means of production will become organized, politically conscious, and powerful enough to pull this small class down from its pinnacles of power--as happened with socialist revolutions in Russia, then in China, and more recently in Cuba." ... "By the end of the capitalist war, 40 million people had died. But in Russia, the enraged masses had toppled two governments and set up a new state unlike any in existence--based on councils, or soviets, of workers and peasants. Marxism, which had become so watered down in Western Europe, had been rescued by Lenin and the Bolsheviks as the doctrine of revolutionary struggle."

Conclusion: The "alternative to capitalism" is simply the old Soviet-union. We all know how that went. Yes, the same path as any other country that took up communism during the 20th century - down the drain.

Paul Burrows: Is There An Alternative to Capitalism? "I favour a "participatory economic" vision influenced by the libertarian Marxist, anarchist, and syndicalist traditions. But I think it would be redundant, a waste of everyone's time to stand up here and regurgitate yet another stand-alone variant of socialism." ... "Solidarity has to be put into practice, it has to be lived." ... "In my opinion, the first of these forms of socialism (which existed in the old Soviet Union and exists today in Cuba) should be off the revolutionary agenda--not because it doesn't work (it does, even by comparison to capitalism), but because it's not compatible with the greatest fulfillment and development of the majority, of the workers and consumers themselves." ... "But if we're going to develop a true alternative to capitalism, we need to be very clear about what values and principles we want to uphold."

Conclusion: No real conclusion except perhaps that since communism worked in the old Soviet Union and works present Cuba (!) there is no reason to think it couldn't work else were.

Sean Hannity: Alternative to capitalism "We advocate public/social property relations in place of privatized capitalist property relations. In the new system, each workplace is owned in equal part by all citizens. This ownership conveys no special right or income. [...] Instead, we all do--or symmetrically, if you prefer, no one does. At any rate, ownership of productive property becomes moot regarding distribution of income, wealth, or power. In this way the ills of private ownership such as personal accrual of profits yielding huge wealth, disappear. But that's it. We haven't accomplished anything more than that, only a removal." ... "This entitles us to a share of the product of work. But how much? This new vision says that we ought to receive for our labors an amount in tune with how hard we have worked, how long we have worked, and with what sacrifices we have worked. We shouldn't get more by virtue of being more productive due to having better tools, more skills, or greater inborn talent, much less by virtue of having more power or owning more property. We should be entitled to more consumption from society's product only by virtue of expending more of our effort or otherwise enduring more sacrifice in its creation."

Conclusion: Remove private property rights and hope for the best. Remove the incentive to work and hope people still would. This and a complex system of all sorts of mandatory councils and decision-making bodies.

It seems that the "alternative" to capitalism is still the good-old socialism - the biggest killer of the 20th century. Or does anyone have another suggestion?