(No problem for reviving the topic as there's been new development in politics lately.)
I'll start by expanding my point from my last post.
I don't agree that capitalism will never collapse. I don't think it will happen soon, but one day it definitely will. And I am convinced that capitalism will collapse by itself, because the system's purpose is itself. The system is based on greed and therefore corruption can't be avoided. People are making money out of money itself, you can make money with no new value being produced. The current economic crisis happens because the world owes money. But to who does the entire world owe money? To itself. It's all about interest rates. Imagine that the entire world takes a loan from one bank and doesn't spend anything. The next day the entire world owes more money to the bank due to interest rates. But there is no more money than that in the world. Even if the money is returned, due to the interest rates, it's not all the money so there will be interest rates on the remaining debt. At this point the entire situation is already screwed up. The bank has all the money in the world, yet the world still owes the bank money. The only way to cover this debt is to take another loan. And at this point it's beyond screwed up.
It's similar with the consumption cycle. Consumers work at corporations to earn money and to produce goods. They then use money to buy those goods. The corporations want to make profit out of it and at least one person (i.e. owner) needs to get some money as well, even though he doesn't work at all, so something needs to be changed. That change is increasing the price and decreasing payments for labor. The difference is pure profit for the owner. But now people can't afford to buy all the goods they used to since they have less money and everything costs more. The life standard of the consumers decreases while the life standard of the corporation owner increases. The problem here (besides the fact that it's "unfair") is that this is a diverging system. At one point paying people less and less will result them in buying less and less goods to such a degree that demand goes down. Rather than decreasing prices (because of the greed of the corporation owner, he wouldn't satisfy with earning less, nooooooo, never), the production goes down. Because production goes down, people get paid less and people lose their jobs resulting them in buying even less goods. And here we go, a collapse cannot be avoided.
Sure, our economy is much more complex than this simply example. But that complexity doesn't come from other factors, it comes from the huge number of corporations. Capitalism is a system which purpose is to feed itself. At one point a breakdown is inevitable. The foundation is greed which leads to corruption and rather than saving many other people, corporations will rather exploit them as much as possible until the point of breakdown.
Now you might think "No way, the government won't allow such things to happen". Wrong. The value of a country is based on their economy. Governments have to support economy in order to have a more valuable country. Since economy are pretty much the values of the corporations, they support the corporations rather than supporting the people (because socialism is evil, oh noez). Instead of forcing corporations to decreases prices and increase payments, they cut down payments for government controlled sectors (e.g. service sector, lots a people work in the service sector), they cut down on common goods (education, healthcare, insurances). That results in people having less money, corporations earning less, the government having to cut down on even more stuff.
You think that's stupid? You think only a retarded idiot wouldn't see a thing like this? You think a government would never do such a stupid thing? Look at the world. It's happening in many countries right now (mine included). I seriously started to doubt the sanity of governments all over the world.
One last issue that people will ask is how the corporations could be allowed to increases prices just as they please. It's simple. They create fake rarity. The rarer something is, the more it costs. If they "fake" that production material is rare and costly, they have a justification to increase the selling prices of the product. Oil isn't rare. There's still plenty of it on Earth. The balance between demand and supply is the thing that controls the price. They create a fake rarity of something that isn't rare thus increasing prices, corporations earning even more by selling even less. Yet again there is a greater gap between classes that's being created.
Conclusion:
There is no crisis. How can the world owe money to itself? That's a paradox.
People earning less and spending less forces corporations to either decrease prices (which would decrease the life standard of the higher classes) or decrease payments and fire lower class citizen (which would not decrease the life standard of the higher classes but instead decrease the life standard of the lower classes). The former would result in sustaining a balance while the latter would cause people having less money and spending less even further which brings us to the beginning of the consumption cycle. Because the very foundation of capitalism is greed, the latter will happen which will ultimately lead to its collapse.
The entire monetary system is completely outdated (several thousands of years). Of course, collapse of capitalism will either spawn another system (there seems not to be a new system anywhere so far) or require a complete restructure which includes stop using the monetary system and changing to society (only likely to happen if enough people have been reduced to low enough class citizen to start a freaking revolution already).