Slavoj Zizek said, &quot;It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.&quot;  I think he should have also added, &quot;or, nowadays, the reform of capitalism&quot;.<p>I may be a seize-the-means-of-production socialist, but I acknowledge that managed capitalism in its Keynesian and social-democratic forms has actually existed and actually worked.  What I find <i>weird</i>, a kind of ideological brainwashing on whole populations, is how <i>nobody else to my Right</i> acknowledges this.  Everyone seems to pretend that the transition in the &#x27;70s-&#x27;90s from social democracy to full neoliberalism (ie: privatization, financialization, offshoring of industries, strengthening of intellectual-property laws <i>over</i> the industrial power of physical producers of physical goods) was some kind of mechanistic historical inevitability, as irreversible as gravity or entropy.<p>The misery and suffering of our people will stop as soon as we stop considering it inevitable and remember the dozens to hundreds of things we can do about it <i>without even having</i> to take riskily radical measures!