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That's not really a movement though. It's more like an annual festival. It doesn't make opposition to profit a way of life and ideology.

• carapace 7y ago
  It's really hard to make generalizations about the Rainbow family et. al. I attended a couple of gatherings a while back, and that's it, so take my anecdotally-derived remarks with that grain of salt... It's not a movement in the organized political sense, but it could be considered a kind of cultural movement. Many of the people who gather live alternative lifestyles all year 'round, and many of them do eschew the profit-motive as a way of life and ideology, AFAIK. Certainly the gatherings themselves are sans currency. People do some light bartering but it's mostly what you might call (if you had to) a "gifting economy". The gatherings are not festivals although they are festive. They're more like religious gatherings but without the religion. Although you will religious people there, of all kinds of religions, all getting along. Referencing your original comment, one thing they're not is disingenuous but they're also not promoting themselves. (No one pays to go to a gathering, all prep and cleanup is done by volunteers.)