Ebbie, I have a friend who is a specialist in the water department of the EPA. Throughout the 90s, he has been employed as a consultant to various former Eastern Block countries in an attempt to undo the damage done by 50 years of Soviet control. If you think that collateral damage, abuse of people, hidden waste toxicity, and destruction of environment is a Capitalist innovation, you need to talk to him. What is apparent is that unregulated power in any governmental or corporate entity leads to damage and abuse.

What needs to happen is that the capitalists need to be coerced into the service of what you and Bobert and Carolc and others here have described as a new world view that transcends war and starvation. You won't be able to force them to do it by showing them the error of their ways. And if you destroy them you must envision a plan for something better that will replace the existing paradigm. Better, I think, to use the mule who is already in the harness to draw the wagon in a new direction. And we know the carrot-and-stick trick works pretty well for even the most stubborn mule.