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My comment is based around his specific words of “disease of our times”, being unrelated to the timeframes you’ve mentioned.

Ah yes, whenever someone complains about unchecked capitalism, there is always someone to bring up Soviet Russia.

It's quicker to make this argument by contrast, than to make the longer argument that capitalism is great in absolute terms.

They arrive at the same endpoint through different means. Too much concentrated power and wealth.

It's not at all the same endpoint.