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Omnia sunt communia

"The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?" Dorothy Day Communism-  noun "A theory or system of social organization in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs." Oxford Languages and Google Communism didn't start with the USSR nor with Lenin and the Russian revolution. It didn't start with the Paris Commune or the French Revolution that preceeded it.  Communism, the idea that resources and goods should be communal, is not a monolith.  Sadly, recent communist experiments in the political sphere, have been abominable.  But Communism is not just one thing. It seems that it always fails when it's turned into a political proposition with an elite, an oligarchy, running things. Because communist states don't have space for dissent, even to this da...