What I don't like about Kotkin is he will explain every nook and cranny and leave communism bare for the world but when he talks about some aspects of capitalism he is grossly and incredibly inaccurate or downright wrong. He says certain segments of society were not given full participation in the capitalist system but never says why. Men without property or land have no stake in the country and women by inherent nature gravitate towards equality and social equity which is a fatal poison. These groups destroy the wealth of a nation or city-state if they are allowed to get involved. And a slave should have none either for similar reasons. Of course, slavery is Satanic but why let that slave vote when he will go for equality and socialism. The reasons for so-called capitalism failings is not what he implies. And we never lived in a capitalist system in the 20th century and still don't. Keep women and non-asset holding men away from the levers.