The productive capability that advanced society has achieved, enabling mankind to produce an abundance for everyone, is based upon social production on a highly industrialized level. This is a material condition that took a capitalist economic system to develop. It is a socially evolutionary stage succeeding feudalism, which supplanted ancient slavery, which displaced communal society, a primitive form of social production providing enough for everyone only when nature was generous. Unfortunately nature was unkind more often than not.
Evolution of production, occurring during the tumultuous succeeding stages of social systems, has wrenched mankind from an uncontrollable condition of scarcity to a conquest over the quirks of nature. This means that the level of a controllable means of production has been reached. Now it has the capability to produce an abundance for everyone regardless of nature's digressions. The catch here is that this wondrous economic potential is deliberately prevented from being implemented as will be demonstrated.
The precarious mode of living during ancient times, comprising of individual hand wielded tools of production, has evolved into a secure productive capacity where the tool is socially wielded. It is a sophisticated tool combining several interrelated components. Its operation is conducted by a whole group of workers performing integrated tasks to produce a finished product. The whole cannot function without the part, nor the part without the whole.
At this juncture, society is faced with the top priority challenge: How can everyone benefit from society's capability to produce an uninterrupted abundance? Capitalism has no answer for that question. The very existence of capitalism depends upon the private ownership of the socially operated means of production. The motive for capitalist production is first and foremost to reap a profit with workers receiving the small portion that is left. Dispense with