Making reality of a moderate "utopia"
“The deathblow to money fetishism”, wrote Trotsky, “will be struck only upon that stage when the steady growth of social wealth has made us bipeds forget our miserly attitude toward every excess minute of labour, and our humiliating fear about the size of our ration. Having lost its ability to bring happiness or trample people in the dust, money will turn into mere bookkeeping receipts for the convenience of statisticians”. Then, he explained, “the distribution of life’s goods, existing in continual abundance, will not demand — as it does not now in any well-off family or ‘decent’ boarding...