
Both can be true. Also it’s just as much religion as it is capitalism. Capitalism basically hijacked Christianity and turned it into a sort of “American Christianity” that convinces its followers that the ideals of capitalism are actually the ideals of Christ, even though Christ was objectively a fairly hardcore Marxist. Not that religious Marxism would be any better. Blind faith is a bad idea in general.
Corruption in commie countries is also the result of power and money, the corruption of capitalistic ideology within non-capitalistic societies. Capitalizing on labor and power for your own gain IS capitalism, even if the party says theyre doing communism. Power corrupts institutions so deeply that i really dunno what to do other than an occasional coup