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> capitalism is flailing so egregiously
How so? The world is a nasty place -- as everyone has known for many millenia. Slumps happen. They've happened before. There is no mass movement, and only in the presence of a mass movement does it make any sense at all to speak of the "failure" of capitalism as capitalism. A bit of fancy buzz about Marx here and there hardly adds up to a mass movement.
Even in the worst of The Great Depression only a minority in the capitalist core thought of capitalism as failing; and part of that minority went right (Hitler, etc) rather than left, and most of those that went left gave their power away to politicians rather than massed in the streets, and those politicians gave them a weak-breweed Social Democracy which has been coming apart since 1974.
Where's the evidence for _any_ threat whatever at the present time to capitalism as a system?
Carrol