If you are in North America, you should try getting in touch with the Federation of Egalitarian Communities [0]. It’s a very tight-knit network of exclusively i

If you are in North America, you should try getting in touch with the Federation of Egalitarian Communities [0]. It’s a very tight-knit network of exclusively income-sharing, democratic, secular modern communities which includes East Wind (the subject of the article) and Twin Oaks (the earliest FEC community, from which many other communities have sprung). The FEC has frequent meetings, practices labor exchange between their communities, and generally will enthusiastically help you understand historical approaches to income-sharing, and help you build systems and structures of your own. Be aware they will generally recommend that you try living in an existing income-sharing community for a year to get a handle on community dynamics and systems before you go off and found your own new community. New communities have a habit of falling apart because of either poor systems, or founder-syndrome where the founder wants to be egalitarian, but is so invested in their dream that they alienate their allies by refusing to let go and trust other people. Also, people who want to join income-sharing communities tend to range from very- to extremely-anti-authoritarian. This can be hard for founders, who are trying to get stuff done and think they can keep doing things they way they did when they got started. So founding is hard, you really need good systems, good co-founding community members, and the ability to detach and trust-but-verify the energetic but unproven new members that will inevitably make or break your community. [0] http://thefec.org http://thefec.org