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	The socialist idea is attractive to many people, but it hasn't
worked as well as capitalism so far.  Our object is to propose how
socialism might be made to work better than it does.  Maybe it would then
be better than capitalism but maybe not.  We certainly wouldn't advise a
country like the U.S. where capitalism works relatively well to switch,
but perhaps some country that already has socialism might improve it along
the lines suggested.

	1. Electoral democracy is essential.  This includes access
to the media and the right to nominate candidates to every group
including groups wanting to get rid of socialism.  First of all,
the right engage in politics is a human right in any decent society.
Secondly, limiting the effects of intellectual arrogance, greed and
corruption requires that it be possible to vote the rascals out of
office.

	2. The right of emigration is essential.  The right of the
elected leaders to give some group a bad deal needs to be limited
by the possibility of that people who think they can do better
elsewhere to emigrate.  Political thinkers designing as society
almost always imagine their design to have a monopoly.  A society
ought to be stable against secession by any individuals or groups.

	3. Critics of socialism have often claimed that socialism
is not in accord with human nature.  This has turned out to be true
but not exactly in the way they usually predicted.  It has often
turned out much worse than they predicted.  Present socialist
societies bear a strong resemblance to feudal societies.

	The early critics of socialism thought that ordinary
people wouldn't develop the public spirited attitude required
to not take advantage of other people.  What they didn't
anticipate was that the leadership of a socialist society
has tended to go to people with the ideology of gangsters.

	4. The allocation of rewards must be as impersonal as
possible.  Modern capitalism has greatly reduced the level of
personal antagonism based on personal rivalry for specific
benefits.  Neighbors are rarely competitors for specific jobs.
The larger the organization at a given level, the more promotion
is through the operation of the system rather than a matter of
the boss choosing between me and him.