> If you want to explain to your kids the virtues of socialism, you first need
> to make them first-hand experience the notion of society and social
> solidarity, as opposed to private exclusionary clubs and gangs that are the
> dominant form of social organization in the US, if we take the federal
> government out of the equation. Have them live abroad for a year or two -
> Europe, Latin America, Israel - where they can truly experience the "social"
> in "socialism." My ex and I made that effort and send the kid to experience
> other countries (Europe, Cuba), even when money was really tight. But
> inoculating the kid from the virus of US-style individualism and localism
> was worth every penny of it.
Some of us call what you are talking about "anarchism."
Kroptokin wrote a book called "mutual aid" and many other anarchists have written about the anarchistic aspects of human society.
Then there are things like the free software movement which are essentially anaarchist.
Chuck