Full Idea
The proverb 'friends have all things is common' is quite right, because friendship is based on community.
Gist of Idea
Friendship is based on a community of sharing
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1159b30)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.273
A Reaction
Thus communism is a kind of sentimental dream that everybody will be friends. The aspiration of all good people should be to spread the boundaries of the networks of friends to be ever more inclusive. This is the new left-wing of politics.