Commonwealth as True Community

So I've just finished reading The Hidden Wound by Wendell Berry. It's an essay on racism which he wrote in 1968-1969 with an afterward from 1988. Here's a quote from one of the last paragraphs of the afterward:

"A true and appropriate answer to our race problem, as to many others, would be a restoration of our communities- it being understood that a community, properly speaking, cannot exclude or mistreat any of its members. This is what we forgot during slavery and the industrialization that followed, and have never remembered. A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, and an economy. It answers the needs practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members-among them the need to need one another. "

And I've been thinking a lot about those statements. (really I feel like it would do me good to read the book through again...) I can't help thinking that in the Way Jesus established there is this true community of which Berry speaks. If Jesus' followers actually lived out his Way, there would be true acceptance and no exclusion. As we are told by Paul in this often used verse: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:28) And could we (people who love Jesus) meet needs practical and economic of our communities by living like the church described in the book of Acts? The people of that church, "all the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need." (Acts 2:44,45) I think so.

It sounds great on paper (or rather now floating in space on the internet, i guess). How can we restore our communities/realize true community in real life? I think it's going to require a chance of mindset and a change of lifestyle, not to mention a habit of prayer.