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Socialist objectives can be achieved in a market context with the rule of law if market socialism were to take the form of competitive worker-owned and self-managed enterprises, supplemented by universally available welfare redistributions, which could include a basic income, universal capital grants, or education and health insurance vouchers.

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    Theodore Burczak

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Burczak, T. Why Austrian socialism?. Rev Austrian Econ 22, 297–300 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11138-008-0059-z

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