Communism, in small groups, is the natural state of humans. It’s built into us to care about our fellow humans, and to share with them. This helps us all.

Things got complex once we started living in groups lager than Dunbar's number in villages and cities as our instinctual communism does not scale. This is when we develop money and ‘market economies’ as this does scale.

As our cities have grown in numbers, they have shrunk in community and connection. There are now a lot of people who are incredibly lonely as we are living unnaturally isolated lives, and this is a big part of what fuels anti-capitalist sentiments.

A lot of people who have perfectly natural and healthy human instincts make the error of trying to scale their sharing tendencies. They see ‘the state’ as their vehicle for recreating community care. These are the people who want the ‘social safety net’. And of course that is how humans are made to function, a community safety net is what we are built for. The issue, again, is with trying to scale it not only to above Dunbar’s number, but to millions of people.

People who don’t know how to connect with others, for any reason good or bad, the ‘anti-social’ people, some autistic people, sociopaths, etc. tend to become “capitalists” in big part because they have less of the sharing instincts and have less ability to perceive the needs of others.

Quite often the ‘bleeding heart liberals’ are the more psychologically and relationally healthy people. Their big error isn’t in their instincts, it’s in not understanding that the policies their instincts want them to support were built for small groups and don’t scale to millions.

The solution here is to bring back the tight knit smaller communities, practice the natural communism in those groups, create social safety nets there, and to engage in ‘capitalism’ or ‘market economics’ with the broader world.