Socialism.Shit, this is so accurate. ZA/UM failed the same way all other socialist states, like for example the USSR, failed. Completely due to its own subsumption, with no external pressures or forces.
Is there a corollary to the Parenti quote, about criticisms of actually existing capitalism being used as evidence for the failure of communism?
If capitalists made Disco Elysium it would just be a dating simulator where the privatized cop tries to groom court a boobified Ayn Rand of questionable age. And the ending will be the two of you in a skyscraper, holding hands, and looking down as your Police Department LLC. kills striking dock workers
