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by aeneasmackenzie 1113 days ago
> The collapse of the Soviet Union, which Fisher believes represented the only real example of a working non-capitalist system

If it was working, why did it collapse?

There are lots of alternatives to capitalism but most of them are measured in mountains of skulls. No one has any difficulty imagining more, most people just noticed.

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Maybe we don't live in a just world? Consider, for a second, that in the Cold War the bad guys won.
Capitalism has it's own skulls. Violent strike breaking, banana republics, for profit prisons, etc.