> Socialism prevented capitalism from self-destructing and instead empowered it by showing everyone that capitalism, with all its flaws and disgusting habits, is the only system that is able to empower and uplift more people from poverty than all other systems COMBINED.

I disagree. Capitalism has not empowered people (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation) and does not uplift people from poverty. Human kind is now able to produce so much that extreme poverty should not even exist anymore. We're able to produce thousand times as much goods per worker as in the 1700s, and yet do we live (and by we I mean all the workers, not just us with high-level jobs in rich countries) that much better than at that time? We produce enough food for hunger to disappear on a global scale, and yet we prefer to burn or stock what cannot be sold because we care more about the exchange value of things than the lives it could save. We could use machines instead of workers in mines (like in Congo), but we prefer to send workers through toxic muds because we care more about profit than the lives of these workers.

I do agree that capitalism is a system that has had a significant impact on our ability to produce more goods, and that in some countries we can see a positive impact (mostly due as you said to socialism and the fact that workers actually fought to soften their living conditions), but look at it globally. And look at recent years too, with poverty skyrocketing even in the most "advanced" countries.