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I know too little on the subject, but I'd like to pre-empt any anti-communist or anti-capitalist sentiment by stating that what we've seen in the past has rarely been either of these two systems. I believe that what we live in is a kind of hyper-capitalism, which has all sorts of bad results which I won't go into unless anyone needs me to. This hyper-capitalism is far removed from the ideals of... I think, in a nutshell, it's John Adams who came up with capitalism.
As far as communism is concerned, we haven't really seen that either, except in Cuba, but it's hardly been able to flourish there. Stalin's era was certainly not communism anything like what Marx had in mind.
Perhaps what your question really is, is whether more "progress" can be acheived with a dictatorship than without one. I see the essence of the question being posed, but I feel it's too broad. It also calls into question what our idea of progress is.
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