[smitty1e]

The irony of anti-capitalist efforts is that they tend toward monoculture: a single strong actor controlling everything, e.g. the USSR.

Capitalism is the worst thing going except pretty much everything else.

Focus on the feedback loops that keep the markets fair for your Pareto optimal operating point.

[dragonwriter]

> The irony of anti-capitalist efforts is that they tend toward monoculture: a single strong actor controlling everything, e.g. the USSR.

That's very much not the case of anti-capitalist efforts generally. It's the case for Leninism and it's descendants, which even other socialists describe as “state capitalism”. But it's not the case for things like leftist anarchism, market socialism, favoring of labor cooperatives as a firm model instead of capital-based ownership, etc., labor cooperatives, and other non-Leninist-descended challenges to the capitalist order.