About cooperative efforts for the economy: somebody has to own the stuff. Even though I think the future may see an elimination of state capitalism and a rise in both free market and cooperative capitalism (coop is still technically free market), I don't have a reasonable theory for what that would look like. Workers are totally capable of owning the businesses they work in, but that doesn't extend into communes, where every aspect of society must be addressed. In an economy, certain people have to own certain things, and I don't see any way to rid us of hierarchies. Honestly, I think a lack of hierarchies would be terrible anyways. I don't want popular opinion or average people to run the Federal Reserve. I don't want a "board of our peers" to be selected each year to chair the FOMC. It's obvious why this would be an utter disaster. The reason I make the point is that this is the logical extension of philosophically pure socialism

Additionally, moving towards this is a legal nightmare. Socialism isn't democratic. It doesn't grant individual rights the way we view them. If it did, then it would mean that individuals can be sole owners of production, and thus the economy would be trending away from socialism towards capitalism. If the US wanted to move to socialism, we'd have to completely overhaul the constitution in ways that would frighten almost everybody