Karl Marx described how capitalism would self-destruct long before it became obvious. But of course since "communism is dead" we don't think we can learn from that or could gain from reading Marx (note that communism & Stalinism have always been two entirely different things, the two marketed by our bosses as synonymous & promoted as the Evil Empire in spite of the fact that US industry [& to some extent British, with a few others] actually created the early Soviet industrial infrastructure. Sounds unbelievable based on what we've been taught by the official sources, but see the massively well-documented book WESTERN TECHNOLOGY & SOVIET ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Vol 1. by A. Sutton, probably the ultimate piece of suppressed history in our time, & judge for yourself).