My hope would be that we can transition peacefully to a hybrid model with the rising power of unions, gradual emergence of worker cooperatives, and increased demand for socialized health care and affordable housing.

However, I think it's more likely that things will have to collapse first. Especially with violent accelerationist types doing their thing. Unfortunately, it's far easier to destroy systems than it is to repair them.

"Defeated" implies being stopped by an external force, I don't see that happening.

It will collapse under it's own weight in less than a century.

It seems as if capitalism sows the seeds of its own destruction. Not saying I know a better way per se but its in there all the same

Edit: to put it in Pokémon perspective: capitalism is Ghost type and its super-effective against Ghost type

Why would you want it defeated?

The most successful and happiest countries in the world are the Nordic countries, which are capitalist economies.

Gens Y, X, Z, and soon A are being taught by conservatives that capitalism can't be reformed, and therefore are digging capitalism's grave with their own hands.

You want reasonable restrictions on firearms? Conservatives say that can't be done because of the 2nd amendment. They're basically teaching gens Z and A that the 2nd amendment needs to be eliminated and those generations might actually have the numbers to do it eventually.

It will be the same with capitalism. You want reasonable regulations and taxation to reign in the abuses of the rich and corporations? Conservatives say you can't do that because the free market must be supreme.

Conservatives will dig the grave of capitalism by continuing to fight against any reforms that would make capitalism more livable for future generations.

Climate change or nuclear war wiping out humanity

There's currently no external forces that can defeat capitalism.

We have to do it on our own. Eat the rich. Guillotine the techno-feudal lords. Confiscate and coöperativize their infrastructure resources.

After mother nature kills every last human being.

Capitalism is still preached in Usa, like socialism is preached in North Korea.

But capitalism is dead and gone.

Today we have neo-feudalism, or some call it techno-feudalism.

Destruction of Earth.

When we start talking to each other again without paid influence.

The troubles facing us all, middle class and below, are the same troubles. We need to practice working together locally to build something bigger before major movements are likely to work out. How do we rebuild community nonprofit hubs?

It's unlikely to happen without some kind of apocalyptic event. Communist societies works very, very well on a small scale; you can have communes with maybe as many as a few hundred people, because everyone is connected to everyone else. That all falls apart when you start talking about anything bigger. Capitalist societies don't seem to need that direct relationship in order to function.

I think that the best we can hope for is some kind of reform that blends parts of capitalism with socialism, and sharply constrains that rights of the capitalist class.

I don't think that we'll even get that though; I think we'll get Cyberpunk 2077.

I think society will collapse first, likely due to mass displacement and migration due to climate disasters which will make more people willing to accept fascism.

When 99% or less of the population can’t work or make any money. What I mean by this is the economy mainly driven by robots/rudimentary AI. The top 1% will be angry and try to keep it as is, but as history has taught us humans really like the guillotine in such situations

I honestly think it'll implode in a few decades. The wage gap will continue to grow, we'll get charged more for less, and the minimum wage won't go up much at all. Conservatives will continue to blame everything on anyone else they can (like immigrants). And I think at some point things will just... break. I'm not sure what it'll look like, but I think it's going to be ugly. Things will get much worse before they get better.

I'm normally a pretty upbeat, positive guy, but I'm not sure how else this could realistically go down.

With thunderous applause.

I think it will be defeated by cultural change. It will come from enough people realizing that cooperation is a superior way to live vs mutual exploitation and defend themselves from those still trying living via exploitation.

When the old people die out

Through abundance it will defeat itself by working too well. Approaching full automation the only way for capitalism to survive is via UBI, otherwise there will be no consumer markets. When we have enough productive capacity and sufficient UBI that everyone is wealthy without having to work, a society like the Federation from Star Trek becomes possible. When everyone has enough wealth that hoarding it becomes meaningless, we might achieve something like a communist society.

When we are filling the vent shafts for the last billionaire bunker with dirt and rocks.

When there is enough critical mass that sees that this shit ain't working... so, never most probably... or after a nuclear war or another global catastrophy. People tend to look in retrospect only when faced with huge problems.