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Communal ownership

Communal ownership is an ownership of a territorial commune and its bodies of self-administration. Communal ownership is similar to municipal or public ownership. Communal ownership is not part of state or private property.

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The communal ownership system, efficient for production and defense, proved remarkably inefficient in coping with property taxes imported after the American occupation in 1847.

On the other hand we can look at more unfamiliar elements of our time, like China's communal ownership of land, and say, perhaps these are emergent qualities that will be more prominent in the future.