Father of the time bank, Edgar S. Cahn identifies two concepts as integral to the development of successful community systems: collective efficacy and specialization.
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Socialism is characterized as a stateless, propertyless, post-monetary economy based on calculation in kind, a free association of producers (workplace democracy) and free access to goods and services produced solely for use and not for exchange.