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Perhaps the point of communes is not to convert the whole world forever, but to create the world you envision around yourself. Temporality becomes real only whe
by vvpan 10y ago
Perhaps the point of communes is not to convert the whole world forever, but to create the world you envision around yourself. Temporality becomes real only when one has a vantage point in the future and through written record. That it did not last until this very moment does not make a commune or a set of any conditions any less real to the people who participated in it. So I don't think one can say that they "failed", they actually succeeded.
- toasterlovin 10y agoWe can choose to define our terms however we want, I guess, but the bottom line is that these communes all set out to start some kind of community and the communities they created no longer exist. In my book, that is a failure to achieve the objective.
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- k-mcgrady 10y ago>> "[They] all set out to start some kind of community" >> "the communities they created" So the objective was to start a community, which you say they did.
- zbyte64 10y agoCall it an experiment. Sure the communities failed, but they succeeded in giving insightful social data.