We live in strange times. Extraordinary economic inequalities, extraordinary technological developments, authoritarian states and reversal of social and political thought. In such contexts, is it possible to think of a society where family, private property and the state do not exist?
I think we need basic institutions such as the family and property rights and a state monopoly on the use of moderate violence. Otherwise, advanced civilisation would have no right to exist. However, I think your question is about a different issue. Namely, it is about the imbalances in the current globalised and financialised economic system that lead to huge inequalities within societies, although inequalities between countries seem to be decreasing. Questions that could be asked are, for example, how to increase the extent of common property not belonging to any private interests. The problems raised in the question are being discussed, nevertheless within heterodox approaches rather than mainstream economics. One can mention Prof. Thomas Picketty and his Capital and Ideology, or Prof. Michael Hudson including his recent and excellent treatise on the collapse of ancient civilisation in the West (The Collapse of Antiquity). Interestingly, both authors point out that the change required to improve social cohesion and reduce inequality will certainly not come from within the system, but rather will be realised through a dynamic process of crisis or worse, war. . .
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