I don't see Capitalism as inevitable either. Much on the contrary. And Capitalism itself has many flavors.
It seems funny to me that no later than a few months after the destruction of the Berlin wall, Communism was regarded as extinct, once and for all.
Now, three decades after the Thatcher/Reagan/Wojtyla triumvirate, their theses have come to be wrong as well, but everybody is trying to save their system, no matter the cost...
The truth is that, in my opinion, with Communism we used to live much better, at least in the free world. We had to show that our system was better, we had competition and free market for the political system itself. We could even afford to send a man to the Moon...
As to Globalization, for me it has no advantage whatsoever. The main problem is that the Market is globalized, but not the working conditions and the social protections. And that is not free competition, that is unfair competition. For a really fair competition, there should be the same working conditions everywhere. And that's not the case. Either conditions improve in Third World Countries, or, as it is the case now, conditions must be worsen in First World.
Whoever thinks that having 1 EUR oriental-made products, which used to cost 10 EUR when made locally, will have no additional hidden cost, is deeply wrong.
The solution to Globalization is Localization. But can we, Westeners, specially the sons of the British Empire, say that we were wrong and we now want to localize, specially after the Opium Wars, for instance? Will we have the courage to be humble enough?