THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A CAPITALIST SYSTEM.

The final word, "system," is overworked.  We can speak of a system as something put together by a person or persons, such as the New York Central System of railroads, or the University of Wisconsin System.  We also use the term to describe emergent and self-organized human (sometimes natural) interaction, most typically around here as a "complex adaptive system," which the New York Central System was not because one word, "railroad" is almost sufficient by itself to describe it; and we can speak of those science-project-in-a-Mason-jar things as an "ecosystem."  That self-organizing capacity is what makes market economies impossible to describe as any sort of "-ism," which suggests some sort of governing ideology.  About the best the magnates of industry, including the Vanderbilts or Morgans, can do, is tame the complexity in their part of the world.

None of which stops good old C. J. Polychroniou, who is vying for the title of Most Mockable Common Dreams Contributor.

We live in a period of great global complexity, confusion and uncertainty. We are in the midst of a whirlpool of events and developments that are eroding our capability to manage human affairs in a way that is conducive to the attainment of a political and economic order based on stability, justice and sustainability. Indeed, the contemporary world is fraught with perils and challenges that will test severely humanity’s ability to maintain a steady course towards anything resembling a civilized life.

The word salad goes on, with a similar degree of lucidity, for some time.  I think he wants the old-time religion back, rather than the vulgar culture studies that isn't even really Marxist.

Darkening times, strangely enough, have never favored the Left. And today’s Left appears preoccupied with identity politics and culture, while unified ideological gestalts guiding social and political action towards the building of a new socio-economic social order are sorely missing. What we may see then emerge in the years ahead is an even harsher and more authoritarian form of capitalism.

Unfortunately, he doesn't even understand why "late capitalism" is such a stupid trope.

Of course, capitalism itself is a highly irrational system for meeting human needs and wants; yet it’s been around for more than 500 years and predictions of a post-capitalist future knocking on our door should be taken with a grain of salt. Capitalism has demonstrated an uncanny ability to evolve, and can easily co-exist with different types of regimes, ranging from social-democracy to dictatorship.  But now it is ruining the Earth, and unless we can tame this irrational economic system and, above all else, do away with its addiction to fossil fuels, the collapse of civilized social order is a near certainty. Then the floodgates of barbarism will be wide open.

Gosh, maybe a form of social interaction (not an ideology, not a system) might have that sort of staying power because it confers evolutionary advantages on its adopters.  Let me educate you, dear reader.

You'd also think that in five hundred years, methods of human interaction that conferred evolutionary advantage on their adopters would have emerged precisely where that existing commercial order was allocating resources least rationally.  Instead you get the likes of C. J. Polychroniou or Robert Reich tapping out their resentment of the existing commercial order on their smart 'phones and hoping their indignation is sufficient to improve the lot of the toiling massses.