Why Not Socialism - Against G.A. Cohen's defence of socialism's feasibility and desirability

In his last book, Why Not Socialism?, Gerald Allan Cohen uses as a departure point for his argument in favour of a democratic non-market economic system the example of a camping trip. In it, the author states, most people will intuitively accept as normal an egalitarian principle of organization with common property over all goods. In this essay it is shown that Cohen's thought-experiment of a camping trip is, if not inadequate, at least biased, and that in fact it proves nothing of Socialism's moral desirability in the context of contemporary societies.