🧱 Foundational Critiques of Capitalism

1. 📉 Boom and Bust Cycles

• Capitalism creates unsustainable overproduction during booms.
• This leads to inevitable crises: factory closures, layoffs, and economic hardship—especially for workers.
• Crashes occur every 5–7 years, per Engels, and the capitalist class typically emerges richer after each crisis.

2. 📉 Falling Rate of Profit

• As capitalists adopt more efficient methods to compete, prices fall, lowering overall profits.
• Over time, lower profits mean less reinvestment, leading to stagnation and crisis.
• Technological innovation under capitalism often undermines itself.

3. 🌍 Infinite Growth in a Finite World

• Capitalism depends on constant growth, regardless of environmental limits.

• Result: ecological collapse, climate change, pollution, extinction.

• Humanity must choose:

  "Socialism or extinction"

4. 💰 Profit Over Everything

• Capitalism rewards those who cut corners, avoid regulations, and exploit workers and nature.
• “Corruption” is a feature, not a bug—it’s systemic.
• Capitalists who exploit the most are the ones who win in the marketplace.