In this context I urge people to read Wolfgang Streeck’s writings about the delayed crisis of democratic capitalism. Wolfgang is a German Social Democrat, not a revolutionary, but as a sociologist come economist he does not shirk from the full awfulness of what is occurring. This link is to a paper from the Max Plank Institute http://www.mpifg.de/pu/mpifg_dp/dp15-1.pdf Its 26 or so pages long but worth an hour of your time if you are truly interested in w’appen in the world today.