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[–] OutlawCountry 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago 

ever wonder why communes and communism are basically the same word?

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[–] Ducktalesooo000ooo 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I’d actually like to see more research on that. I always assumed there’s some kind of (((revolutionary))) lineage going back to the Paris Commune of 1791. I don’t know if the term was used earlier than that.

My hypothesis is that the bolsheviks stole the term for street cred.