Not "despair", Michael. Simply drawing up a balance sheet of the last century's political record and trying to learn lessons from it - the biggest one being that objective conditions dictate the pace and scale of historical change, not the myriad programs for reform or revolution designed to force and speed it up. So, yes, capitalism is not forever but we don't have a timetable for when a new mode of production will appear or how it will look. As the old Chinese proverb attributed to Deng has it, we can only "cross the river by feeling for the stones".
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