| Greatwyrm, the reason we don't have a model for the failure of communism is because we've never seen a model communist state work. It's an experimental system. However, one thing is for sure, and that is that capitalist systems are deeply flawed in their ideology.
There's been plenty of chance to study capitalist systems, and the results are well written. Capitalist systems, as it would appear, only continue to exist through the usage of socialist safety valves - ie: federally controlled bank reserves, government-regulated utility companies, social security, bankruptcy laws, etc. Otherwise, the entire system is doomed to collapse from overconsumption: overconsumption of resources, labor, land and capital, and underproduction due to saturated markets and the lack of space with which to expand. And so we see the obvious results over and over again: Labor strikes, market bubbles, recessions, depressions.
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |