Funny how many people rattle on against capitalism while listening to CDs, driving in cars, eating commercially produced food (including nearly all organic produce, unless you grow it yourself or belong to a collective), living in comfortable housing, using computers,and so on.

But you think "capitalism has outlived its usefullness" . . .

What is the alternative? There is no way of going back to agrarianism or hunting and gathering on the scale necessary to maintain the population with food and shelter at even a minimum level. For all its abuses, capitalism has an unequaled record for creating wealth and improving living standards. The social benefits enjoyed by all of us (education, health care, social security, infrastructure, etc.) in developed countries were payed for with government revenues (taxes) gleaned from commercial enterprise. Regarding pollution, 'destroying the world', blah blah blah, the 20th century nation with the worst envirnomental record was not the US, Britain, Japan, or Germany but the USSR. So if you want to blame industrialism or modernism in general, then you're getting warmer, but again what is the alternative?