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I agree Ben... depending on what is to come in the next few years, September 11th is probably the closest thing to a crossroads we can see. The rest will all be seen to stem from it or lead up to it...
As for Communism vs. Capitalism... Communism just isn't going to happen. The conditions that Marx described in the Comunist Manifesto simply don't exist in the way they did at that time. Change did come but not in the violent reveolution that Marx and Engels predicted.
The thing is capitalism as a system is way more flexible that they thought it could ever be. Additionally, they never predicted the growth of such a huge Middle Class. A middle class that is highly invested in the system as it is... They don't want change, they want more consumer goods and more importantly they want to keep the consumer goods they have acquired.
As long as these conditions (and others exist) there will never be the bottom up support that a true Communist Revolution requires.
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