[Kneeniasy]

The market cannot "fail for good." People need food, clothing, shelter, etc., and need some method to trade their labor for these things. The FORM of the market can change. Hegel led us with his spirit of the state theories into believing that either capitalists must own the state or the state must own the means of production. Marx expanded the historical understanding of how capitalism had grown and postulated state ownership in which the state would magically fade away. How such a failed theory could "make a comeback" is beyond me. However, his historical analysis is still very useful, identifying weaknesses and obviously inadequate reactions to opportunities and crises inherent in the form. These insights should not be lost, but only emerge when the next crisis occurs. Communism as posed by Marx's followers failed with the fall of the Soviet Union. Fascism (or more realistically, National Socialism) failed with Nazi Germany. It makes no sense for us to revive Hegel's alternatives when both have already failed. We need to move on to a new dialectic to address the conflict between greed (renamed for scientific purposes) and whatever we're going to call greed's antithesis.