The number of people in prison, especially African-American and Latino peoples, keeps growing. Because of takeovers by agribusiness, the number of family farmers is dwindling. The number of people on drugs and afflicted with AIDS keeps increasing. There are more unpaid mortgages and bank loans than ever before, more people going bankrupt and driven into poverty. Taxes on workers keep going up, while taxes on the rich are going down.
Health care keeps declining and the costs keep climbing.
Public education is under attack. Thus, for the working class and poor people the quality of life under capitalism is on a steady decline. The overall, long-term development of all societies is in the direction of socialism. However, whatever is positive in capitalism, socialism will adopt. There is no explanation for the new developments outside an understanding of U.S. imperialism.