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A society where production and distribution are fully collectivized and run according to a common plan should be pretty straightforward to imagine. Such a society, where ownership of production is equal across all of society, is both economically compelled by the comditions of today, and classless. I made an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list, give it a look if you want to see how and why we can get there!
As a side-note, it matters very little whether or not we can "imagine" a form of society. That form of utopianism was why the Owenites, Saint-Simon, etc. failed, and is why Marxism sufficiently advanced into scientific socialism. We must analyze the material conditions of today, how we got here, and where they are leading, not just focus on crafting a better world in our heads and trying to recreate it in reality.