> Our foraging ancestors achieved a socialist society several millenia before
> the idea of capitalism had entered anyone's head. These societies were
> marketless, stateless, and egalitarian.
There's nothing wrong with markets per se, just like there's nothing wrong with exchange per se. Socialism means freedom from hunger, misery, Stone Age dentistry, childbirth without anaesthesia, and countless other horrors; a freedom to, rather than freedom from.
-- Dennis