What is your opinion about Communism?

[Anomalocaris]

It has been shown to succeed the independent metric of continued survival and continued expansion.

To the first half...a presentist metric.  Plenty of things survived until they didn't.  To the second half...so what?  What does "expansion" mean to the average joe?  Nothing.  It was supposed to be a means..not and end..wasn;t it?  Sure, as long as we judge it by it's own scorecard to the exclusion of all others it wins the game.  Not exactly surprising, and not at all useful. 

In history of social experimentation, a persist feature are people who Imagine they can transcend the realities exhibited by present because they have the foresight to see a better future, only to look longing at a fantasy future they’ve only imagined, and whose fatal flaws they overlooked in their enthusiasm. while being utterly undone by the power of the existent present they despised.

There have been many more of failed dreamers who were undone by taking a preferred vision of the future too seriously than there are failed presentists who were undone by taking the lessons of the present too seriously.

You can measure it with any metric you want.  None of those metric will amount to anything if by that metric capitalism fails, but capitalism survived and prospers in the real world, orld if some other system shines by your metric, but is nonetheless unable to preserve itself against encroachment by capitalism.

The system of capitalism can "survive and prosper" all it likes, but if it does so to the detriment of..you know...people...it seems as if something may be amiss.  We don't exist to serve capital.  Capital exists to serve us.  "Encroachment" by capitalism is no different than encroachment by a hostile military force.  How do we react to that?

The difference is capitalism isn’t out to get you.  You are just collateral casualty.  Furthermore, capitalism allows a lot of those who otherwise might become collateral casualties to take advantage of capitalism if they have the flexibility and opportunism to benefit from it. So the value proposition for opposing capitalism isn’t nearly as solid for as large a segment of population as the theoretical value proposition in opposing a hostile military force that presumable is here to overthrow your way of life.

This is why those opposing capitalism often discover too late that there are far too many traitors in their midst for them to succeed.