The Sociology of Everyday Comunism

The sociology of everyday communism is a potentially enormous field, but one which we have been unable to write about because we have been largely unable to see it. The iroquois example brings home clearly what makes this possble, that such relations are based on the presumption of eternity. Therefore, there will always be a north and a south side of the village. In a similar way, people tend to treat their mothers and best friends as if they will always exist, however well they know it isn't true. Wherever a stranger is a dangerous potential enemy, the normal way to overcome the danger is by some dramatic gesture of generosity whose very magnificence catapults them into that mutual