ABSTRACT
Communitarianism is the social strategy which distinguishes peace-loving virtues from greedhoarding impulses. Communitarianism argues for the former because, in the main, human experience has shown that people prosper when tribalism and egoism give way to generosity and fair-play as fi rst order responses. Even Genghis Khan, the Asian general whose total-war ferocity shook the 13th century, demonstrated that consistent fairness and truth telling built empire faster and with less bloodshed than any medieval code of honor, encrusted with class and heavy with elitism and privilege (Weatherford, 2004, xix). Community grows under a regime of predictable good will tending toward fearless communication of dissent and negotiated hierarchies of function attentive to the advantage of the least powerful members.
