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This is a fine piece of scholarship, and survey of the relevant literature. Lippert-Rasmussen largely succeeds in showing that relational egalitarianism is compatible with various forms of distributive egalitarianism. However, even if the desirability of egalitarianism is given (and I am not completely convinced), there is no evidence that any of the suggested egalitarian states could be achieved or maintained. Mao and Stalin failed, and it seems clear that the costs of egalitarianism will always outweigh the benefits. One might even say that any egalitarian achievement would be unjust. Little of the text has any practical application. More realistic and useful would be various game theoretic analyses, including the trade-off between Pareto improvements and inequality, but this is outside the scope of Relational Egalitarianism.