No.472740
First of all, capitalism isn't a "system", but a situation. No one was an "ideological capitalist" until the rise of the fascists. The reactionary elitists and idiot screamers embraced ideology, but their ideology suggested not "maximum capitalism" but oligarchy and slavery. That is the result of the German ideology, Nazism, the Austrian School, and so on. There were political elitists who did see the future as liberal and progressive, who believed themselves to be a new aristocracy, which makes diagnosing what this was difficult given the amount of lying involved.
The trajectory of capitalism as a situation is literally what Capital was intended for, and it was expected that this understanding would be expanded on by future writers. The questions Marx asks are not particular to him, so there are liberals and socialists and proto-fascists / elitists asking the same question. The Fascists themselves are directly responding to Marx, and to the situation they saw. It became the consensus of those who opposed the democratic movement that fascism was the only future society that would protect a political elite, and so that is by the admission of those who rule what they really want. They want to Nazify the world, and keep telling us the Germanic system is the only possible system, since the Germans dominated world fascism and cleared out every other type. In the main, fascism is the political system of eugenics.
This isn't the position of the "left", but the position history has shown us, and by the start of the 21st century, eugenics was all that remained. Ideology is for the slaves. Eugenics in the end supplants capitalism as the dominant situation. Rather than the capitalist's lordship being through command of money or financial institutions, eugenic society is dominated by command and control of people in a form of slavery more abject than any yet known. If you were to suggest a teleological view of history, human civilization appears to the present ruling ideas as nothing more than a progression of slavery to ever-worse forms. Chattel slavery gives way to serfdom, which gives way to the scientific slavery of the 18th and 19th centuries and imperialism, which gives way to corporate rule and the early efforts of the eugenists, which gives way to the national security states that could command all life from cradle to grave, which gives way to the eugenism which is currently seizing the world. There was never once, in the ruling ideas, a suggestion that a different world was possible. The faint hope that it could be different was just that, an empty hope that was never seriously considered. This was done not out of any material incentive or for any ulterior motive, but because slavery and the command of people became the sole purpose of the human project, and anything else we would want was destroyed. Right, left, and center would all align towards that goal in the end, and the concept that it was going to be any different was no longer something that could be said without political elites bursting out into laughter and silencing the fool who thought he could ever be anything else. That is the world of the present day. To those outside, humanity appears as one giant running joke and a list of atrocities committed against his race. Humanity is not the future to most of us. Humanity is seen, correctly, as the enemy - and without humanity, we are in the ruling ideas lost. Humanity itself changed from its earlier spiritual conception to a purely biological and racial conception, and in doing so, the thing we are told humanity is, is the exact opposite of what humanism now stands for, which is nothing but eugenics.
There are no ideas permitted that suggest "historical progress" will result in anything different. The only thing that is evident is that the world of the future will be nothing but misery and humiliation, even for the rulers who turn on each other like jackals. That's all that humanity can be now, and the rulers revel in that, because they really do not think.
The orthodox leftist view is to suck up to this beast and be liars and enablers. Officially, some form of socialism is proclaimed to be the future, but this "socialism" is always dubious, and the left is contemptuous of anyone without political sense. They really should stop lying to the people. We're not as retarded as they think we are or they need us to be.