Hell, even monarchistic governments existed for some type of “protection and support.” We so need new ideas, both capitalism and communism are old, dead ideas that have valuable aspects that should evolve. But that’s just what capitalists and communists hate, is evolving. Communists already seem to think Marx figured out “the solution” even though Marx thought a true Marxist society would need to be in perpetual revolution within itself, because there is no end to history.

If we are not taking the old ideas and improving on them, what the hell are we doing other than stagnating? I think that’s the real issue, stagnation of ideas, a lack of social imagination for anything better. In the same way capitalists can see an apocalyptic end of the world but they can’t imagine that post-world existing without capitalism, it seems the die-hard communists similarly can’t imagine a future without communism.