The logic of globalisation, both in manufacturing and such, and in communications, especially through the internet, are potentially leading us into a world where a lot of ideas associated with socialism, that were previously impractical, become possible. And a lot of ideas associated with capitalism become increasingly impractical.

In fact it becomes increasingly difficult to preserve all kinds of property rights of capitalist enterprises in face of these changes.

And the way that information of all kinds is beginning to be passed around the world, and throughout the whole of society, is going to make it increasingly hard to play the game of divide and rule.

At some point egalitarianism moves on from being something that can be brushed aside as impractical idealism, it becomes a practical necessity. After all, just consider how extreme and even crazy ideas that we take today for granted, and see as commonsense and essential to society, would have seemed only a relatively few years ago.