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Thanks for your responses.  I personally would love to live in a socialist society, if I believed it could work as described, which I'm not sure of.  BTW, I'm not actually an accountant, it was just a hypothetical.  I'm an academic who is doing pretty well, but not that well.I essentially accept the two class theory, but I'm sure you are aware that there are objections from the bottom of the working class that may be as intense as from the top.  I know a young woman who is truly poor who I've discussed these issues with, and she told me that she found it "offensive" to have her struggles to literally get enough to eat compared to the problems of a doctor, who she considers "rich."

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Thank you all for taking the time to give thoughtful replies.  I would like to see the case for a free, collectively owned and managed society made more prominently.  I do wonder if perhaps you are too worried about appealing to people's emotions and thereby creating "false socialists."  All humans are motivated by a mix of reason and emotion.  I completely agree that people who don't understand and agree with a program don't truly support it and won't successfully enact it, but such understanding requires at first awareness at least, and sometimes an emotional hook before they will really pay attention (I certainly include myself in this group).  It's hard to see how you could make things worse by being (carefully) more aggressive.  But perhaps I'm off base, I hardly know much about what you are actually doing.  Anyway, all the best.  I hope to join you in freedom some day, and hope we all can contribute to bringing that day closer.

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