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I think you're right to cite "culture", but I'm not so sure about "aristocrats". Seems Platonic. Communism on it's own isn't really a problem for me. Like every family operates on a communal basis with shared property and so on. On a small scale, not only does it work, but it's the status quo from time immemorial. It's only when it expands to the level of a state government and is forced on people that it tends to go sideways. My personal favoured theory follows on the ideas expressed by Elinor Ostom in "Governing the Commons". That has a basis in reality that demonstrably works and has worked in some cases for millennia, without falling into the trap of the black & white capitalism vs socialism false dichotomy.