A Feasible Vision of Socialism

Who does not know Marx’s lovely vision of life in a “communist society” where it will be possible “to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have in mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd, or critic”?

This is precisely the image of the future from which Alec Nove seeks to disenthrall us in his discussion of “feasible sociali...