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And if communism tries to establish itself, we may be able to expect Stalin-like levels of death and starvation, too.

a big chunk of that history about those deaths is a lie and same deaths happened all over the world including US and Europe.
but this is irrelevant because the soviet union was not the communist state, because labeling soviet union comiu8nist just because it was ruled by communist party is same as changing name of US every 4 years because it gets ruled by the republicans or democrats.


>I don't pretend to know what will solve the world's problems or exactly how people will manage to adjust.

if you don't know anything at all why do you claim that everything will be fine?
I cannot see any of your arguments besides that it worked for 200 years thus it will work forever
slavery survived much longer than capitalism and yet it still ended because it turned out unsustainable

eventually, it is all about motivation because the goal of society is to find away individual people to work and provide something useful in some way

capitalism relies on the most basic step of motivation by Maslow priority of needs as it says either you work or you will die.

But when that need is satisfied it loses importance, you cannot motivate people with more money if they have enough to pay the bills. so you need to move to the next step
society of the starving homeless individuals who work for food and shelter is not very effective.

communism relies on the latest step of motivation as you are given everything you need but you work for self-expression. where your satisfaction comes not from that fact that you survived one more day without starving to death but because your product is valued by the hundreds or thousands of people.
in that situation role of consumer and producer is reversed because now producer is paying consumer with his effort to make consumer use his product.


>Capitalism has its problems, to be sure, but communism and all its variations have their own set of problems, and even if capitalism did go under (it won't) I really can't believe the alternatives are somehow going to do a better job of it THIS time.


slavery and feudalism went under so why capitalism is eternal?

communism is still a long way to go, an alternative to communism is socialism or fascism
under socialism, you live in the prey same way as under capitalism except that all capital belongs to the democratic state.
the state becomes one megacorporation and all citizens become shareholders of that megacorporation.

In fact, we already have this situation, because every business entity is heavily indebted so everything belongs to the state already

when private companies will start going bankrupt they will officially become state property and private capital will be eliminated as unsustainable.

this is how it all will transform into socialism

it already happened at the high degree because pretty much everything belongs to the central bank already. They just try to maintain the illusion of capitalism which is already practically dead and just exist as the zombie.