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Commune
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A commune or comune 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 and African countries, including France; comprises cities, towns and villages
- A Medieval commune, a social organization that appeared in the rising towns of the European Middle Ages
- A kibbutz, an Israeli collective community
- 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: Comune, Communism, Communalism and Communitarianism
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