It all depends on property rights and ownership. If few people hoard and control all of the resources and means of production that make the resources like gold valuable, they will continue to profit. Everyone else’s standard of living will continue to plummet in their efforts to control more markets (through wars, embargoes, trade agreements, etc.) and squeeze out the greatest amount of profits from everything and everyone.

Until property relations change, the property-less (and I don’t mean a single family homes….i mean machines and resources that create wealth) will continue to struggle to greater and greater degrees across the world.

Yes, and the USSR (a communist country who started fighting to defeat fascism) was winning against the nazis before US involvement. The US and imperialist allies couldn’t have the Soviet Union win and spread their socialist revolution. It was for money and power, not because capitalist countries have an issue with fascism. Fascism is capitalism in decay. Communism isn’t the evil they want you to believe…it is actually liberation for all. Capitalists and their cronies want to keep you subjugated to them and their interests….and they have spent billions propagandizing to ensure you think of communism as a boogeyman.