Many fell in line with the totalitarians of the Right and the Left. One hears little of socialists and anarchists. Capitalism seems firmly in the saddle, with little threat from anti-capitalists. Yes, capitalism rules, outside of a few spots of resistance-Cuba, Vietnam, China, for instance. Even these are beginning to yield to the glitter of the market system.
Weapons exist in power and number sufficient to destroy all human and most of other life.
Millions starve and are homeless, while a few hundred are billionaires. Greedy timber, mining, oil, fishing, cattle, and development corporations plunder our planet, as though there were no limit to their loot. Not only do they grasp for waning resources, at the same time they discharge poisons and pollutants into the air, water, and soil of our planet home. The damage done by modern profiteers, supported by power-hungry politicians, dwarfs out of all proportion the harm done by capitalists of the early 20th century. Surely the justification for such is many times greater than in those earlier days.