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gives orders and takes maximum effort from the workers, paying them minimum wages. The owner lives in a good house with servants, has riding horses in the stable, cars, and stable workers. There are mechanics for the machines, carpenters, smiths, bricklayers for new works or repairs, stokers, turbine operators, men and women who were once slaves in the fields, car drivers, animal packs drivers, distillers, etc. It is a population of, let us say, about 600 souls within 100 families or so.

Here, the organization is autocratic; the law is to obey the orders transmitted by the farmer foreman, the work supervisor, this privileged individual who earns much more and sometimes even has a small participation in the profits.

In the anarchic communist regime, the lands, the sugar mill, and the houses belong to the community; there is no owner, no administrator, and no salary. Everything belongs to everybody; nobody gives orders. All services are provided through mutual agreement and by each union’s deliberations.

82 – Types of communes – The abovementioned example does not show all the possibilities of the commune, because the aspect of each one will vary according to the geographical oecumenicus. Oecumenicus is the Latin word for inhabited region. Since every one of them have their own special characteristics, the population is forced to adapt to the environment, thus acquiring their own characteristics as well. In this way, the nomad population of the steppes, the population of the African oasis, the Eskimos, the fishermen of the Senegalese coast, the farmers of Rio Grande do Sul 1, and the rubber tappers in the Amazon are very different types of people.

This difference is produced by their geographical oecumenicus, by the ways of living imposed by each region’s resources.

Commerce amongst people has created curious oecumenicus.

The daily sailed seas are oecumenicus, because an entire population lives permanently inside the ships: the sailors. They 99