I think so.
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Everyone owns everything? Not IMO. I've had four terrible housemates and one awesome apartmentmate. I guess I'd need you to define what exactly you mean, but I don't think I practiced communism in any of the cases, and only one of them was non-peaceful.
Not everyone owning everything, per say, but rather a living philosophy of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need." And while ownership doesn't have to be universal, access/use does. (It's my TV in the living room, for example, but I never use the "I want to watch my TV" trump card. Or we buy groceries together, and it doesn't matter who eats what.)
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Well, the good situation was when I (we really; me and my then-girlfriend Lynsey) had an apartmentmate named Brian. The furniture was neither ours nor his -- it was Jenn's. She was our old apartmentmate and had moved out without a word and left her furniture (she ended up getting it after our one-year lease was up -- I guess she'd never had a good place to put it before). Neither we nor Brian ever left a mess anywhere other than in our own bedrooms, and each bedroom had its devoted bathroom. So I guess the need for communism maybe didn't arise, because I liked hanging out in my room (on the computer) and Brian liked hanging out in his room (on the XBox). I wouldn't call it anti-social, because there wasn't any tension or dislike... but we weren't that social either. It was like we each had isolated room-apartments and shared the "suite" or something.
See, I can see that working fine, but when you don't actually have isolated room-apartments but choose to live independently that I feel tensions arise. Or maybe that's because I'm a more social person. (The idea of living alone greatly displeases me.)
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Hmm. I'm with you up until the groceries. Everything else in a house is fair game, but I like to able to count on certain items being in the fridge, especially when you have roommates who eat quite a bit more than you do. In the house I lived at for most of my college career, we didn't share groceries, and that was fine. There was the one roommate who occasionally "forgot" what was his and kinda went hog wild on the fridge, but overall the system worked.
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