# The dream of superabundance is over

The idea of [[Red Plenty]] / [[fully automated luxury communism]] is over. For now.  We don't have the time - in the present we must focus on reduction.

> Traditionally, socialist utopias envisioned a society based on a superabundance of essential goods which could be treated as though they were free. Thus, markets would be eroded, and the compulsion of work would be reduced
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> – [[For a Red Zoopolis]]