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Title: $Does Capitalism Create the Conditions for Its Own Destruction
Abstract: During much of the twentieth century, socialism was viewed as the major threat to capitalism. Even though they were supporters of capitalism, Joseph Schumpeter and Friedrich Hayek both wrote well-known books in the 1940s expressing the fear that socialism would displace capitalism, even though capitalism was the more productive economic system. After the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 followed by the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, capitalism appeared to triumph, but three decades later, socialism is seeing renewed popularity. Meanwhile, capitalism is being eroded from within through cronyism, corruption, and special interest politics, which capitalism’s critics view as components of capitalism. A popular backlash against a system of cronyism that appears to favor an elite few over the masses has presented an opening for supporters of socialism to offer it as an alternative.