and your believing it doesn't make it any more true.
sure, I, along with JC and others, endorse socialism. It's kind of odd that you think it's not a sustainable system, but simultaneously imagine an "un-shackled society where truth and human value were the basis...". Yeah, that's hard-nosed realism, much more plausible than being able to, say, build on the style of socialism that the Euros have been experimenting with. The governments of the world through history have incorporated more or less socialism, just as they have more or less democracy, with varying levels of success. There have been promising results for both, certainly both trends should continue while learning from the failures.
Your world-view is revealed again (i'd forgotten) by the invocation of the cabal that is apparently the real reason we can't have nice things. I guess if they weren't there, we'd be living in the land of milk & honey? Seems to me that instead, the problem is with human nature; capitalism, especially crony capitalism, leads to the rise of what look like cabals just as much as socialism can. Centralizing power is the problem. Democracy is one attempt at limiting that, and socialism, if it's implemented in a way that maximizes everyone's power, actually helps maintain equality. It's more in the nature of capitalism to allow for the rise of an uber-class and a race to the bottom for the rest. Uber (the company, not the class), which some tout as a sign of the miracle of a free economy, actually is a better example for my argument. Cabbies were solidly middle-class, while Uberists are fighting to stay there.