Imagine you could pass any law or regulation in a capitalist society in order to make it more socialist.

 It sounds like you believe there's no laws under socialism or rules?  it sounds like paradise and heaven combined if that were true.  But how do you distinguish socialism from anarchy? and it sounds like no laws or rule changes could every beautify capitalism or make it more like socialism?  I guess you believe communism will never exist without a violent revolution, the destruction of all money, the abolition of all laws, the death of all leaders, and a world of surplus abundance. And all of those have to happen at the same time and keep happening for comunism to exist?Hey, how does this socialist discussion forum work? is it even socialist?  or are we talking about socialism on a capitalist website. 

@Alb, I like your idea.  . .Consider if it wouild it be sufficient, or at least an incremental improveemt if the state simply failed to enforce property rights on stocks, shares, bills, bonds, property titles and incorporations of companies?  the paper would stil be worth paper and if someone wanted to give you money for the paper bond or paper share or paper property title, than you would be free to accept money for the paper. But if you had the paper no one would would be required by law to honer it.  Imagine for example that the courts were so tied up and deadlocked with foolery that they couldn't handle the enforcement efforts. Maybe everyone decides to fight their traffic tickets and at the same time 10% of the population decide to sue their employers, and then a few million student loan and housing owners decided to take advantage in the courts and police being tied up and just decided not to pay their debts unless the police come and force them.  And then the police and courts are more overwhelmed so that they could not force someone to give you money for a share of stock or bill or bond or property title until after the backlog of 3+ years was dealt with.  the state has largely abandoned prosecuting many laws already such as copyright laws for adult entertainment and and worker protection laws.   there's too many laws on the books for even the police and lawyers to know them all.  there are precedents for a slow down in property rights enforcements.  Can a capitalist society aproach communism more closely if it were somehow to find that the state was very very very slow at upholding the basis of capitalism and completly gave up in some cases?  How much of a delay in enforcement would bring us how much closer to communism?  or would it work the other way, where delays and complications made society more capitalistic?  Maybe it would depend on the type of delay and complications?  What about passing a single law that said corporations and business were not people legally (in the USA that means overturning citizens united, AFAIK).and didn't have the rights of people. this is something that might pass in the US, and people keep keep trying).  What if somehow that law depriving coporations of their personhood were not only passed, but were extended to mean that corporations couldn't sue or prosecute people for crimes against the corporation. Only individuals within the corporation would be allowed to sue or prosecute people using the law. If corporations became personal property in whole or in part then a corporation could not sue because property can not sue and property has no rights under the law.  there would be no way to compel a corporation to pay a bond in that scenario and you could only sue or imprison the person at the company who was holding the bond. How much would that push our society away from capitalism and towards communism? or would it work the other way and push our society towards capitalism and away from socialism?  

I like your ideas.  here's some thoughts I've had on accomplishing the same or similar results. . . 1) Some states in the USA, like california where I live, already have a system where anyone can start collecting signatures and if they get enough to put them on the ballot then the people can vote on them. What seemst to happen is that capitalist have paid people to collect signatures so mostly capitalist friendly laws get the required signatures, but it does still help compared to not having this option.  Perhaps what we have in the USA can be improved on by the learning from the swiss style referendums?   The other problem in america I see is that the paid opposition floods our mailboxes with misleading descriptions of the referendum.  We have, for example, local ballot issue that got on the ballot through collecting signatures and the ballot asks for a 1% charge on soft drinks because they're bad for peoples health and the money from the tax is intended to be used for helping low income people and health programs like farmers markets.  BUT, my mail box and email and phone gets deluged with propaganda telling me to vote no on the grocerty tax on the poor with stories about how poor people who have trouble buying groceries will have to pay more if the tax passes.  We have on the internet something similar and potentially better.  MoveOn.org allows anyone at any time to create a petittion and have other people sign them and then you can ask the politicians to look at your pettition and consider making legislation.  The enforcement mechanism is obviously lacking from the moveOn.org, but it got me thinking of a way to fix it that might work.  What if in addition to signing a petition online, you had a check box that said "send me an text or email or voice call or letter 1 week before the election of the person I can vote for or against who is most responsible for acting on this, or responsible for not acting on this.  include in the email a copy of my comment I wrote when I signed the petition, my vote on the petition (for or against) and also the elected official's response and actions. Also send the politician a notice of the petition that reads something like "Dear Ms. Elected official.  11,586 people in your district who wiill have a chance to vote for or against you on December 15, 2017 and have signed a ballot requesting you pass sign into legislation a sugar tax.  They have also requested a reminder email be sent to them 1 week before the election with a copy of their request to your with a summary of how you responded. . . so this strategy would work in any nation and with any elected official and the way it works or not works is by nudging or making it easier and less time consuming to vote better.  Usually when people fill out petitions nothing happens, so this change is to make sure something happens.2) Perhaps we could, as a society, create a media issue that imposes a litmus test on our poliiticans.  When running for office, one of the first questions we ask is if they will agree before the voters decide to elect them or not that they will sign a binding agreement to step down if a petition signed by the majority of the people in the state calls for them to resign?  Something similar should be made a campaign issue litmus test that all candidates are compared to see which ones agree with this and which ones don't.  3) I love this idea of yours and it goes along well with the others. You've got a complete set of 4 ideas that could work together to go along ways.  I'd like to make a law that all airwaives are public property (already nominally the case) and that business using the airways must pay for their use of the spectrum based on how much of the bandwidth and processing they take up, BUT, the money paid for use of the Electromagnetic frequency spectrum should be payable to the media that use it best and get the most attention.  So in affect we want to vary the pricing of the spectrum and the allocation so that public radio or websites are paid based on how many people tune in.  I'd like to also do this with regular mail so that every piece of junk mail costs an extra quarter to send, but not if the recipient of the mail decides it's not junk and puts a "I appreciate recieving this" postcard included in the junk mail into the mail box to tell the post office to credit that mailer with doing a public service by sending the mail package.  So basically a tax on all communication but with the proceeds of the tax being determined by the people who recieve the communication and possibly given back to the person or group sending the converaation.  Something like this was tried in the early days of the internet with Lotus Notes and email software and people loved it, but the lotus notes software company went bankrupt due to competition from microsoft. 4) I like that targeted media companies first.  Selective use of what power we have is smart, and starting with media companies is even smarter for practically managing our efforts and resources.  I'd recomend media must formally be run by a system of HOLOCRACY which is an OS for business based on free assoication and already used by some major companies such as Zappos shoes and working out well for them with some bugs they're learning to work with too. In conclusion.  I think you're suggestions were the most strategically valuable so far and the most implementable. Thanks for letting me know about your support for those good ideas.