# Telecommunism > Telekommunisten promotes the notion of a distributed communism: a communism at a distance, a Tele-communism. > > – [[The Telekommunist Manifesto]] > Advocates of communism have long described communities of equals; **peer-to-peer networks implement such relations in their architecture.** > – [[The Telekommunist Manifesto]] ^ this feels very related to [[info civics]]. > Conversely, capitalism depends on privilege and control, features that, in computer networks, can only be engineered into centralized, client-server applications. > > – [[The Telekommunist Manifesto]] [[Communism]].