Nono, Luthor instutes a special Third way that isn’t capitalism or communism, and it magically makes everything a million billion times better than either system, thus proving that we shouldn’t do a communism because it will cause humanity to stagnate with silly things like “healthcare and housing for all” instead we need a system that lets the very best people rise to the top and then one day just decide to fix everything forever. It looking like a planned economy and having a true meritocracy with the best and brightest representatives in charge is because communism is bad and doesn’t try to do that.

Still mad about that ending tbh, and Luthor’s character in general in it, he’s stupidly overpowered and pretty much just the author’s Mary Sue character who magically fixes everything and stops those evil commies because he’s So Smart.

I’d much rather see a version of it where the author actually knew anything about the USSR and socialism and communism, and what sort of underhanded fucked up shit the US gets up to. A communist superman being raised to see the best in humanity vs a Lex Luthor who will do everything in his power as a rich capitalist to exploit that, actively using Superman’s empathy as a weapon against him, that sounds a lot better than the story we got. Still one of the better superman stories though.