the thing about capitalism is that it’s a trap. those who wish to bring about change are usually lower class and unable to leave for financial or personal reasons. capitalism is inferior to communism because it makes survival a reward rather than a right
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Joint ownership is already a thing in capitalism. Two or more people jointly owning a resource in no way implies that they must submit to a monopolistic arbiter of force. In fact, it's only when resources are jointly shared by everyone that a monopoly disappears.
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This is why communism is a stateless, classless society. The classless part is important, because when you have property relations that give rise to class, a state inevitably appears to enforce those property relations one against the other.
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Communism doesn't necessarily need to be achieved through statism, except that statism already exists via the bourgeois state. Communism isn't about enforcing equality of outcome, it's about formulating the necessary material conditions for statelessness.
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