Socialist Progressives

If historical economic systems evolve through stages as postulated by Marx, ultimately resulting in the end of class struggle and the workers egalitarian control (ownership) of the means of production, the failure of the great socialist states of the 20th Century demonstrate that we just aren't there yet.

Simply, capitalism has a lot more exploitation to work through before we have an equally oppressed working class on a global scale. The "benefits" of capitalism over the preceding historical economies continually outweigh the social revolutionary impetus which operates on theory rather than reality.

Capitalism offers a better life for workers who have nothing - if there is no means of production in a poor nation, what is there to take over? The People's Republic of China has incorporated capitalism, private ownership and a degree of autonomy by wealthy elites as a means to an end. Not even China is ready.