When they’re not hijacking capitalist tankers, communists often find themselves asking for sacrifices from people who have the least to sacrifice—it is not a social strategy that appeals to many people with the most, after all. While the other strategies rely on access to substantial flows of resources, whether state revenues or union dues, communists, as we’ve seen, worry about stocking subsistence levels of potatoes. This necessity births a lot of invention, but the mortality rate is high. It’s low-stakes to proclaim “Everything for everyone!” when you don’t have anything in the first place. And if your movement has to figuratively and sometimes literally fight for what it has all the time—including and especially primary mediations such as shelter, food, medicine, and freedom from incarceration—there’s a limit on the remainder of care left to go around, the free abundance of which is supposed to be the commune’s greatest weapon. Communes threaten to gather rather than solve capitalism’s problems, drawing together people with desperate needs and few resources to assist them. That’s what happened at the communized Sheraton in Minneapolis, which could not manage the collective discipline necessary to continue. As M. E. O’Brien writes of protest camps, “They require an enormous quantity of uncompensated collective volunteer hours, often from people who depend on the camp for their material survival while organizing.”70 That’s a delicate balance and not something that anyone can nail down in perpetuity. O’Brien concludes that the commune can’t simply spread because people next door see how well yours is working: “The structural conditions of proletarianization, market dependency, and state violence make such a vision of a revolutionary transition impossible without generalized insurrection, and leave such communities inherently unstable, inaccessible, and isolated,” she writes.71 Communism is a martial plan, and that could be unappealing to people who mistakenly believe they live in a peaceful society. Perhaps communism only seems reasonable in the mad light of unexpected fire.