I wish I still believed that. But it requires a great deal of faith, and it’s a bit cavalier to destabilize all of human civilization without hard evidence that communism will actually work.

Enlightenment thinkers espoused a similar level of faith in the transformative power of free trade and democracy, as opposed to mercantilism and monarchy. It was indeed a transformative power, but it arguably took us even further away from our ideal society.

Everybody and their mother knows capitalism is flawed, but the viability of communism is still very much an open question. I personally think it’s worth a shot, but having blind faith that it will definitely be better is a bridge too far for me. As soul crushing as capitalism is, we also tend to take for granted all the problems it does do a good job solving, because we have never experienced any other social system.