[mythrwy]

I wonder if the same type of alienation appeared in late Soviet Russia or Mao's (or even current day) China? That was also people having the humanity ground out of them by a faceless technocratic machine not really a happy community of people helping each other.

The problem might be less "capitalism" and more the rise of large highly specialized bureaucratic nation states.

[mgrthrow]

I would argue that Soviet states were autocracies (and some would argue they were capitalist, just state capitalist.)

Stalin sucks, flat out. Any socialist or communist who thinks Stalin was good should not be listened to.