My point is that this seems to be common with allot of capitalist companies that they only do something out of spite. The problem is dictorial countries are much better ay advancing human knowledge. While democracy is better at placating the masses.
I'm afraid you don't know your history very well. Sure, the soviets were the first to produce satellites, and the communist system was good at mega-projects. But if you compare the millions of innovations made in the western with the thousands made in Soviet countries, you'll find there was always more innovation going on over here.
Part of the problem was this: in the Soviet economy, everything was planned in five-year chunks. So, in the fifth year, what car you're getting was decided five years ago, not based on market trends from the last year, and the latest innovations from R&D. This applies to *every* consumer industry.
A bigger part of the problem was this, however: suppose that in a capitalist country there were a big problem that you knew about. Let's say the problem is that crops are rotting in the fields because there aren't enough trucks to drive them to the warehouses (a very common problem in Soviet Russia). In a capitalist country, it works like this: you go to the bank and tell them your businiess plan, "I'm going to buy this truck, and then I'll be able to get jobs driving the crops to the warehouses to pay for the truck." The plan is financially solid, so the bank gives you the loan, both you and the bank make a profit, and everyone in the country benefits as a result of your combined actions: food is cheaper for the buyers because there's more of it, and the farmers were able to sell their crops which would have otherwise rotted.
To solve that same issue in a Soviet economy, you'd be petitioning the five-year-plan committee to produce more trucks in the next five year cycle and allocate them to transporting crops. And you wouldn't be rewarding innovation by buying the most reliable, fuel-efficient truck on the marketplace, you'd end up with whatever they decided to produce in five years.