The lesson is that extremes and monocultures are generally failures. Moderate and diverse economies are probably better fit to long term success; in the short r

The lesson is that extremes and monocultures are generally failures. Moderate and diverse economies are probably better fit to long term success; in the short run ideology can generate massive benefits - like war communism did. I would argue that many of the economies of the developed world have swung far to far toward plutocracy and injustice.