[trhway]

>capitalists; ... their program for world domination has mostly succeeded

Unfortunately human race hasn't been able to come up with a better thing yet. Most of the 20th century was spent on implementation (and dealing with consequences) of the 2 most progressive (as they looked back then and as the theories like the Marx's state) approaches - communism and fascism (the both actually almost the same in the core - total government economical and political control). We all know the results of those approaches.

[Synaesthesia]

There is libertarian socialism, or anarchism - which seems very promising. Essentially the extension of democracy into the workplace. In Spain in 1936 by all accounts it was very successful and popular. Productivity improved dramatically and petty crime became non existent. However it was crushed by the combined force of western democracies, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. They hate democracy. Not surprising - democracy is a threat to any power system.

Libya until recently had a very interesting political system where all decisions had to be ratified by the population. Unfortunately that was also overthrown by an invasion, unfortunately a rather common pattern with this kind of thing (Chile under Allende, Guetemala 1953, etc.)