communal society
Collective living arrangement
A communal society is one organized around shared ownership and collective living rather than private property and individual households.
Members typically share resources, labor, and decision-making.
The term applies to intentional communities like kibbutzim, religious communes, and utopian experiments: They joined a communal society in the 1970s.
- kibbutzimIsraeli communal settlements
- interdependenceReciprocal reliance between entities
- collectivismGroup primacy doctrine
- egalitarianismPhilosophy of universal equality
- village eldersSenior community authorities
barn raising · monastic orders · altruism · collective identity · circle of trust · potluck dinner · reciprocity · participatory democracy · eco-villages · shared responsibility · worker cooperatives · ujamaa · trust-building · shared resources · inclusivity · mutual aid · collective farming · ashrams
communal societycapitalist society
Economy built on private ownership
every man for himself · gated community · hierarchical society · stratified society · feudal society
communal societyindividualism
Doctrine of personal independence
rugged individualism · every man for himself · self-interest · atomism · egoism
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