I have been down libertarian and anarchist paths and in the end I want to live in a society where we are least likely to suffer at the hands of despots. There is no realistic path away from democratic society that doesn’t return us ultimately into the hands of kings and warlords. Democracy is imperfect but it’s the best chance we have to live the lives we want.

Not opposed to Marxist critiques of capitalism but left and right, authoritarians and anarchists both form a horseshoe. The end game for either tends to be a single party state controlled through force by a corrupt elite.

Social democracy or democratic socialism can both be made to work. Libertarianism and syndicalism deny human nature and experience.