“That kind of communalism can only work on a very small scale.”
I think the Shakers managed the longest run and there are still, what four or five left. The last one will inherit everything they still own.
But there is a huge difference between voluntary sharing and government-compelled sharing. I always picture Dr Zhivago coming home to find his family is ‘sharing’ their home and being told they should be grateful for being allowed to live there at all.
Sharing kills ambition. Why try hard if you just get what everybody else has?
These resources include oil, timber, minerals and fish.
Sweden is a perfect example of such a state .It's system worked well until it's people became decadent and lazy and began abusing the system