The ideology of “there is never enough for everyone” makes people lonely. It
isolates them and robs them of relationships. The opposite of poverty isn’t
property. The opposite of both poverty and property is community. For in
community we become rich: rich in friends, in neighbours, in colleagues, in
comrades, in brothers and sisters. Together, as a community, we can help
ourselves in most of our difficulties. For after all, there are enough people
and enough ideas, capabilities and energies to be had. They are only lying
fallow, or are stunted and suppressed. So let us discover our wealth; let us
discover our solidarity; let us build up communities; let us take our lives into
our own hands and at long last out of the hands of the people who want to
dominate and exploit us.
Theologian Jurgen Moltmann, "The Source of Life"
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