This mindset has two fundamental flaws. First, no one has any idea how to achieve the overthrow of the global economic order. Second, no one can point to a system that has been shown, in practice, to deliver better results than capitalism. Marx himself stressed how productive capitalism is. There are no examples of flourishing communist economies in which, to use Marx’s words in his ‘Critique of the Gotha Programme’, ‘the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly’ than they do under capitalism.
