Sorry to reply over a month

Sorry to reply over a month later!! I’ve been distracted by various responsibiliities in my life and this discussion slipped to the back of my mind. Thanks Robin, DJP, and Gnome for responding! Once again Robin you have provided a thoughtful and helpful response. A moneyless system finally seems plausible to me. What changed it for me was learning that it is the workers “on the ground” who make the decisions regarding how to allocate resources when they’re scarce, which orders to fill and which to delay or fill only partly, etc. I had been assuming such decisions would be made by the entire community (neighborhood, or municipality, or region, etc.) and this just seemed to unwieldly, too many meetings for us all to sit through to make all these production decisions that would come up day to day. But if these decisions are scattered across various workplaces, then it becomes manageable. DJP, I agree with you that we should be eroding the boundaries between workplace and community. That’s why I made the assumption (noted above) that the community would be involved in these decisions of how to allocate scarce resources. But I don’t think this would be possible because it would be too many meetings. So although no seperation between workplace and community is the ideal, I don’t think it can be met totally in every case, and some boundary will need to remain. But there definitely needs to be more community input/control in workplaces, such as for environmental standards, product health and safety, etc. Gnome, you crack me up! I’m glad you’re warming to me and it’s likewise. The SPGB must use you and your charming ways to recruit new members. But I don’t live in Britain so wouldn’t make much sense for me to join. Plus I’m not convinced about SPGB’s electoral strategy. I don’t entirely dismiss it either, as I think it might be possible, but I put more faith in revolution.