User blog comment:D2r/Unanswered Questions of Redwall/@comment-1421927-20100125005321

@d2r: Very true. Never thought about that.

@TBT: Where does it say they're communist? They don't seem quite the everyone-is-paid-the-same-no-matter-how-much-they-can-or-can't-do, economy-failing, dictator-with-absolute-power-following, failing-at-making-utopia woodlanie guys that the Communist or Marxist doctrine would make them. Heck, I would say its more aristocratic or democratic, seeing as in the later books there is a council of elders.