I think liberalism is better. Why? Because communism, is a political and economic system in which wealth and resources are divided among citizen equally or according to individual need. Examples: Government controlled education, no private property, all $/ property belongs to the state, etc.
Liberalism is freedom from regulations/ rules and overbearing government, its people power. The power for the individual to do what he/she wants within bounds of the law or society. Liberals are much in favor of the people being more powerful than the government.
Think about the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution as a product of Enlightenment ideas. ... John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau introduced the idea of a social contract
