I read some Of Plimoth Plantation, by William Bradford around Thanksgiving time every year. For those who don't know, it is a firsthand account of the people we know as the Pilgrims in the US who landed 400 years ago. I usually read about their first year 1620 in book 2, but this time branched out to 1623. Here is an excerpt.
http://fortwalden.com/storage/Plimoth_Plantation_1623.txt
Basically, communism didn't work; even for these hardcore moral people. Private property turned failure to success. Nothing new under the sun.