Commune

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A commune is a system of social and economic organization which involves the common ownership of resources and/or shared obligations. Within that framework, the word can have various meanings:

An administrative subdivision of various European countries, including France; comprises cities, towns and villages
A Medieval commune, a social organization that appeared in the European High Middle Ages
A kibbutz
Commune: a kind of intentional community
People's communes, formerly an administrative division of the People's Republic of China.
The Paris Commune, brief socialist reformist state in Paris from March 26 to May 30, 1871
The Shanghai Commune, organized by Zhang Chunqiao in 1967
The Pinnacle Commune, founded by Rastafarian preacher Leonard Howell

When used as a verb, to commune means to receive the Eucharist

See also: Communism and Communitarianism

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