The Zeitgeist movement and the Venus Project do not advocate communism, socialism or fascism - it shares NOTHING with the said systems (including capitalism) as people envision them (I think people should look up what separates each and every system in detail before they jump to conclusions).
Also, just because money worked in the past, doesn't mean it's been working for the past 100 years.
Money had its place in history and it WORKED for a period of time when Humanity was living in real scarcity (but ever since the industrial revolution, Humanity has been producing abundance through technology, and rationing of such abundant resources is useless - plus, the general population was never exposed to relevant general education, which means people at large were never aware of what our science/technology can really do, and they were constantly prone to being manipulated and used by others - not to mention having people in positions of power).
The point is to completely abolish money in every shape/form and use automation technology on a full scale (which is already doable) so we can produce abundance in a sustainable capacity using less resource with highest efficiency in mind, producing superior technology (the best of what is possible and in line with our latest scientific knowledge) and by repairing the environment in the process (also was doable for a LONG time now).
Also, there IS a transition plan in place.
We cannot simply push people from the existing system into RBE... because you will end up with same problems.
People need to be educated on sustainability, how the new system would work, how the technology/cities would work, etc.
That's why a transitional period of at least 10 years is needed (it would be enough to completely transform the entire planet, repair damage we caused and reduce our footprint by orders of magnitude - no killings, no fighting/violence is required to achieve it.
During the transition, it would be best to retain most things from the present system (such as money and system of government [one that is actually DOING something to solve problems] but with far less emphasis).
Automation would be introduced to such an extent where the work-days would be reduced to 4 hours daily, but with no cuts in salaries (new people could be employed with also same salaries and work-schedule as others to compliment automation so production would be the same if not higher).
And over 10 years, as we maximize technological automation, the work day would continue to reduce by half until its completely eliminated in the end.
Basic necessities of life (clean air, clean water, quality food, quality clothing, quality housing, needed technological amnities (made in the best possible way), power, heating, access to quality medical care, relevant general education and quality transport - all of those are basic necessities of life for TODAY (all of which can be provided to every person on the planet several times over by using all those landfills for raw materials - no need for extraction of new resources from the Earth).
Switching to geothermal, solar, wind, tidal and wave in concert (just using 1 of those in sufficient quantities would satisfy all our needs on a massive scale for a LONG time to come - tap into just 1% of Earth geothermal supply and we have 4000 years worth of power/heating).
Solar is more than enough (and has been for some time now).
Now imagine just how high efficiency would rise if we made these techs from superior synthetic materials.
Use your imagination a bit and merge it with our up-to date scientific knowledge.
What I mentioned is just a tip of a very large iceberg (and its using contemporary knowledge consumers and regular folk have access to).