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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 3838168" data-attributes="member: 307">I'm not. The original poster asked for discussion of a topic much broader than you seem to think. To quote the OP:Communism is just a subset of socialism, and a very specific one at that. And not very well thought out either.I've read Bellamy. Probably long before you did. And Bellamy doesn't assume that the means of production are owned by the workers. Perhaps you need to go back and reread Looking Backward and note how this assumption is not made, mentioned, or regarded as important. Socialism is not dependent upon the assumptions you seem to want to make universal. In point of fact, most of the 19th century socialist thinkers didn't make such an assumption.</blockquote>