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Definition of commune:chesusRice said:What socialist country runs communes. I am intrigued .
com·mune
/ˈkämyo͞on/
Noun
A group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities.
Verb
Share one's intimate thoughts or feelings with (someone or something), esp. when the exchange is on a spiritual level.
Political Theory of Commune introduced by Marx:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commune_(socialism)
The commune is a model of government that is generally advocated by communists, revolutionary socialists, and anarchists.
The Civil War in France (1871), source :
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/index.htm
Karl Marx, in his important pamphlet The Civil War in France (1871), written during the Commune, advocated the Commune's achievements, and described it as the prototype for a revolutionary government of the future, 'the form at last discovered' for the emancipation of the proletariat.
Thus in Marxist theory, the commune is a form of political organization adopted during the first (or lower) phase of communism, socialism. Communes are proposed as the proletarian counterpart to bourgeois political forms such as parliaments. In his pamphlet, Marx explains the purpose and function of the commune during the period that he termed the dictatorship of the proletariat:
"The Commune, was to be a working, not a parliamentary, body, executive and legislative at the same time...Instead of deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to represent and repress the people in parliament, universal suffrage was to serve the people constituted in communes, as individual suffrage serves every other employer in the search for workers, foremen and accountants for his business."- Karl Marx (https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/index.htm)
In addition to local governance, the communes were to play a central role in the national government