Sentence:  In that community where no one was on the make, where there was a shortage of everything but no <WSD>privilege</WSD> and no boot-licking, one got, perhaps, a crude forecast of what the opening stages of Socialism might be like. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The fact of being privileged; the status or existence of (now especially social or economic) benefit or advantage within a given society. (from 14th c.)