The critics of capitalism – Marx, Lenin, Luxembourg, etc. – were right about what they were saying, they were just wrong about the alternative. The irony of late 20th century history is that the collapse of communism was likely what set the stage for the coming collapse of capitalism.
The critics understood that, in order for the capitalist system to work, capitalism requires some outside population to exploit. Now that capitalism has taken over the entire world's economic order, there will be no arena where capitalism does not touch. Soon new growth opportunities will become hard to come by. Maturity will stall out the economic system and all the artificial methods of maintaining the semblance of growth will be used up.
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