The All or Nothing Logic of Communism

Both christopher columbus in hispaniola and captain cooke in polynesia reported similar stories of islanders who either flee attack or offer everything. It's understandable that dealings with potentially hostile strangers should encourage an all or nothing logic, attention preserved even in english. What i want to emphasize here is that all such gestures are simply exaggerated displays of that very base line communism that i have already argued is the ground of all human social life.