I know Capitalism has is faults but the alternative should scare the crap out of you.
The current path we are on SHOULD scare the crap out of everyone. (except the elites)
Am I totally scared of the USSR coming back with all its totalitarian suck?
Doubtful this could ever happen to a advanced society nowadays,
The USA was NEVER at risk of becoming a Russian bolshevik state outside of the silly Red Dawn movie or paranoid books the right wing enjoys getting worked up over. Get real.
Now, could we have a bit more of a less dogmatic neo-liberal system that takes care of it's own people and at least gives those a level playing field who wish to work hard? Regardless of sex, race, class etc?
What Marx proposed was no less controversial then what the founding fathers wanted. With a little bit of a antitrust law to the people twist to keep the self destructive capitalist exploitation in check.
That is a horrible summary of the works of Marx, but whatever, I am a Bakunin/Zizek/Chomsky sort of lefty anyhow.
Marx is so outdated now, hard to find much relevance in such old books besides the whole "he was right! how do these capitalist bastards STILL get away with this?" little kick. It gets old though, pointing out problems is the easy part, the contemporary left needs to find answers relevant to the 21st century.
Still doesn't hurt to go back a bit, there is a lot lost in history through disinformation put out by the establishment for over 100 years. Some more useful then others.
For example I am no fan of Lenin or Trotsky, but they did write some interesting works on how they put together one of these centralized economies from scratch, what civ gamer wouldn't be interested? They literally got to micro a whole society with almost no automation or computers to distribute resources. Amazing how they pulled it off.
The other rhetoric they spew was war stuff, blah blah smash the kulaks/capitalists etc. I think Lenin/Trotsky sucked but they kept 11 capitalist armies out of the cccp right after WW1. Dunno if them being in charge was any better for the people though. Stalin was waiting to make his power grab.