Couple of things:
1. I hate neither Gibson nor Henry J, I think the latter did fine with resurrecting Gibson from the sorry state it was in the mid-eighties. If Gibson is in a financial crisis now, I'm sure its not from Gibson USA, Custom Shop or Epiphone sales, but you never know how much their aggressive diversification strategy re other brands might have cost them and it seems to me that they got reckless overleveraging their equity (they were not the only ones, money was cheap and easy until 2007).
That said, Henry, will you please finally send the Ripper II over to Germany which I ordered many moons ago with you in another selfless effort to enlarge your personal wealth? You don't even know me, yet you could probably buy a medium-size car from all the profits you have made off me.
2. Karl Marx' analysis of capitalism ranks among the best and is nothing short of acerbic. Never mind how his recommendation for that other economic system did not work. Capitalism, for all its unparalleled efficiency in generating goods and services, will always have a self-destructive streak and it is up to man to rein that streak in and turn the big bad wolf into a useful shepherd dog.