[Zhukov]

The most successful system is the one that the best suits current development of the means of production. Dialectics.

Primitive Communism ---> Slavery ---> Feudalism ---> Capitalism ---> Socialism ---> Communism ---

The type of society the Aboriginals had would not be best suited to the type of production the Romans had, and vice versa.

You are right about 'running ourselves into the ground', slavery died and made way to feudalism, feudalism gave rise to capitalism, and capitalism is creating it's own destruction to pass over to socialism.