When a total change (revolution - but not in the Authoritarian Left sense) does take place a majority would have to support change in some way. It would have to be a Libertarian Socialist revolution and not some elite seizing power in a coup (eg. The Bolshevik revolution).
The point is that the new social organisations that take over would have to exist in an embryonic form before this. A revolution would have to be a clean break with what had been before.
The community and people as a whole should democratically own the means of production and not some State bureacracy. Replacing common ownership with nationalisation was always a bad idea.
I don't want to dream what a future world will be like. There will be plenty of time to work out what it would be like closer to the time. Necropolist is right when he says food items will go off. What would be the point of stocking a fridge with more milk than you need - it will just go off.
There may be some overconsumption at first but most people should be more enlightened by then and a total change will help get rid of the concept of greed. Capitalist society places emphasis on money for the sake of money rather than money as a means of obtaining what people need - so it just creates greed.
Human nature is more human behaviour - the way someones behaviour is determined is by external reality. So if the system around them is based on greed so a human will develop greedy attributes.
Lets not forget that there has never been a total change anywhere under capitalism. So called Communist revolutions have always been about an elite (a new capitalist class) running things (with a state monoply rather than a private monoply).
The state should serve no purpose after a revolution. Communities will organise to administer - not to Govern! The old capitalist means of production, distibution and exchange would have to be used by the people initialy so there may be some period of change over. But money will be useless as a means of obtaining needs virtually straight away and the quicker it becomes completely worthless the better.
Four Winds - the trouble with vouchers for goods is they can just become a new form of money. Ther will be no need for rationing, especially for items of basic needs.
Not meanig to sound as If Im delivering a sermon. Just trying to discuss & raise some important ideas.
Peace & Love
MonkeyBoy
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