Reply #83: This would be my idea...........

[socialist_n_TN]

IF you want to go interstate with a business idea, it either has to be fully worker owned (co-op/petit socialist) or government owned (socialist). Now if you're dealing with proprietary technologies and ideas, then license them. You'd still have some disparity, but not like what we have here and now. If you don't want to expand past the borders of the state you found the business in, then state laws would apply. This wouldn't involve a new Constitution, just interpretation of the commerce clause.

The interstate nature of government owned businesses in the US would be the roadmap for socialist business structures that take care of all the basic needs. PERIOD. It's not going to be socialist in a developed society if there are still people who are hungry and homeless.

Beyond that, if there's a consumer item that you want to sell over the whole country (or whole world) the government has to become involved on the side of the people before you can legally sell it. And rather than put together draconian laws and firing squads for capitalists who don't want to play this game and try to sell outside of their state and outside of the law, then they forfiet they're claims to proprietary tech and ideas. IOW, you put up a government factory (or worker owned co-op with the start up costs financed by government loans) to manufacture the item CHEAPER THAN THE CAPITALIST CAN.

Probably the FIRST step towards a socialist system is getting rid of financial influence in politics and maybe in society as a whole.