[steveklabnik]

I will not argue with you about my disdain for hippies and their views, but to mention a few things from a slightly different perspective...

> But ultimately, seven billion people are never going to form some totally sweet Zapatista-style worldwide commune.

Most serious communists would agree, at least for the near-term: you'd need a few generations of socialism before that'd even be remotely possible.

> At that scale, the markets are going to be at work. Capitalism is inevitable.

Note that 'capitalism' != 'markets,' or even 'free markets.' Mutualism, for example, is market socialism.

> But the farms and kibbutzim themselves are still participants in a larger capitalist system.

Totally, 100% agree.