Rules: you’re not allowed to say “never.” We already know it’s possible it will end when everyone dies because of nuclear war or climate change or some other disaster. Name a specific year (within this century plz) and describe why capitalism will end at that time. Whoever is closest will get an extra food coupon at the local worker canteen. If you joke around I will be extremely disappointed in you :heartbreaking:
The Global Atmospheric Reengineering project failed and caused rapid ecological catastrophe, and economies around the world collapsed. However, the “Chinese Belt” proved much more resilient than the old Euro/Anglo economic system, and recovers at a staggering speed. People outside that system know that they have been cheated, and calls for reform grow to a fever pitch. Everyday more people take to the streets, a growing revolutionary movement…
…that is immediately coopted. A handful of token bourgeoisie are very publicly stripped of their wealth and thrown in prisons, but the leaders of the new workers’ parties that are taking charge in the west are mostly the same people that had been in charge before. Billionaires call for the execution of millionaires, factory owners champion unions, and the old guard of the political class abandon centrist rhetoric for empty revolutionary proclamations.
At this final stage of decay, the undead capitalist class abandons all pretenses of liberalism in order to simply maintain control at any cost. Rather than relying on the invisible hand of the market to replicate their privilege, they create highly efficient state bureaus to do it. Party purges are conducted regularly to keep upstarts from advancing in the new system. The prison industrial complex massively expands and becomes a primary source of labor, and the former capitalists find themselves committing every crime they’ve ever accused a less-liberal government of committing.
