Are you trying to reinvent socialism in the current day, without looking at prior theory and history? Or are you trying to see what types of socialism would exist pre-Marx, or other prominent socialist thinkers? If the former, this type of agrarian utopianism is contrary to proletarian class philosophy, if the latter there are good books on the utopian socialists like Robert Owen. One of the best pamphlets is Friedrich Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, which explores prior utopianism and contrasts it with proletarian, scientific socialism.
Socialism
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I do want to thank Archon for this, they have pushed me to complete my copy of SUS (
) which I had actually gotten far into.
Also sitting there going "Archon should read this."
Positive! Yea it's one of my favorites for how concise and important it is. It's a single-sitting explanation of scientific socialism, really helped develop my understanding!
That would be the least efficient system possible. In the middle ages, there were famines every few years. It is not a standard by which we ought to build a society.
You're not even talking about primitivism. You're talking about a world governing system that essentially atomized every single human being into a disconnected island that must fend for themselves. It's utterly ridiculous.
What would immediately happen is a group of people with a modicum of basic foresight would pool their resources together to achieve economies of scale. This would happen hundreds of times all over the world. A few of them will decide to start coercing their neighbors into subservience the first time a famine hits. Then some people will deliberately cause crop failures to drive more people to their service. They would have sufficient economies of scale that a portion of them could become warriors and go out and steal from others. The best of these would build defenses to prevent others from doing it back to them
Congratulations, you just recreated the exact conditions of the middle ages.
You know what comes after that? Capitalism!
"in the middle ages there were famines every few years" nope and my system would obviously prevent that
Beyond the Great Famine, other notable periods included severe shortages in 1304, 1305, 1310, 1330–1334, 1349–1351, 1358–1360, 1371, 1374–1375, and 1390.
Your system would obviously exacerbate it because you've described individual subsistence farming.
- How do you make sure everybody gets land of the same quality?
- What du you do when every piece of land in an area is given away and then a new child is born?
- What if children grow up and want their own house somewhere else?
That is the opposite of communism, because you are thinking on the basis that everyone should be able to live alone, by itself, on its own property. You're describing some kind of libertarian nightmare here.

