As someone who considers himself a commie (in the sense of desiring collective forms of property not in the police state sense although of course right wingers

As someone who considers himself a commie (in the sense of desiring collective forms of property not in the police state sense although of course right wingers will shout that you can't have one without the other but that's another debate), and while I am sympathetic to the author's concerns I am not convinced by the line of reasoning. See, in a "capitalist" society, that is one where the capitalist mode of production is dominant, you can pretty much state that capitalism is the root of all problems in last resort. While it sometimes makes for complete and thorough analyses, it is often an hand wavy explain-it-all and intellectually lazy answer. Not because it is not true but because it is not relevant. And as every hn reader knows, saying something true is easy but saying something true and relevant is not. "L'heure de la dernière instance ne sonne jamais"