There’s an interesting instance of a teacher accidentally creating pencil communism in her classroom. She posted about it on tiktok. Essentially, she provided pencils to the room, but if they went missing, a class period would acrue a pencil debt, because the next class period would need them too. One period decided they wanted to have a safety net and banded together to provide a surplus. Then all the other periods got in competition to communal provide as many pencils as possible

Communism is when you take away everyone’s pens before giving away your own, so that everyone has to use the same pen. And you also are entitled to read everyone’s notes, because they’re using your pens. - MLs, probably