My previous post dealt with one vision of socialism, a society where people work for the fun of it and give away what they produce. It exists in the real world on a small scale embedded in a market society. My family will be hosting a meetup in our house in about three weeks at which we will provide all comers with food, drink and space for conversation, all at no cost. We will make most of the food ourselves ' we like cooking ' but with purchased ingredients. We bake our own bread but do not grow our own wheat or grind our own flour nor do we know anybody who does and is happy to give us some. The centralized form of voluntary socialism appeals to my imagination less but comes closer to working.1 Israeli kibbutzim range in size up to a thousand inhabitants. The oldest is more than a century old and monasteries, an earlier version of the same model, have lasted much longer. There are at least three reasons. The first is ideology, religion for the monasteries, socialism for the...
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