China is the nation to watch as to Communism. I understand that it sees capitalist methods as useful on a path to Communism and has never given up on this idea. If they can hold back corruption, they may continue with the Party being dominant over all corporate forces (unlike the US in which it is the other way around).
Communism is mostly about developing and maintaining enough resources to be easily shared. If abundance can be created technologically, there could be a withering away of the state. Think about what free energy, future 3-D printing and digital currencies could accomplish. We already have an enormous resource of free information at our fingertips – that frustrates centralized media and governance. Who knows what follows next?
