[inflatableDodo]

If the authors point is that the institution is morally rotten, then whether or not they have been successful and which particular economic system they have used to achieve any success, is neither here nor there. I don't know why you find it damning. Is orthoganal, if anything.

[ryacko]

Many people conflate morals with your side vs my side, which seems to transcend any definition of morality.