[kubanczyk]

People voted with their feet, statistically speaking, and a theory that doesn't explain it isn't usable.

If there is a lesson here for followers of Marx, the ability to make jeans or coca-cola (i.e. whatever fad the lowest-denominator consumers want this month) is a very important characteristic of a system.

[ihm]

This leaves out the very violent wars (sometimes bordering on something like genocide [0]) that have been waged by the capitalist world against communism.

[0]: E.g., a CIA backed government killed ~1 million people with connections to the communist party in Indonesia.

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/05/18/how-jakarta-became-...