I agree. Particularly in 2004, when "America Wins, Fuck You" is this prevailing western narrative, Cuba is still struggling to survive without the USSR, and the Pacific Economic Crisis has set back Vietnam and China substantively, it certainly doesn't look like Communism is Inevitable. Quite the opposite.
But these authors decided to include it speculatively anyway. When it has never been more difficult to conceive of a world without capitalism, we're being introduced to the idea of potlatch and resiprosity as an economic basis.
I agree. Particularly in 2004, when "America Wins, Fuck You" is this prevailing western narrative, Cuba is still struggling to survive without the USSR, and the Pacific Economic Crisis has set back Vietnam and China substantively, it certainly doesn't look like Communism is Inevitable. Quite the opposite.
But these authors decided to include it speculatively anyway. When it has never been more difficult to conceive of a world without capitalism, we're being introduced to the idea of potlatch and resiprosity as an economic basis.