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I have nothing against communes. I have visited and know many people who have lived for a long time in communes around the world. Communes and alternate lifesty
by Nokinside 7y ago
I have nothing against communes. I have visited and know many people who have lived for a long time in communes around the world. Communes and alternate lifestyles are exercise in humanity.
As usual, people are the problem:
1. Everything becomes politics. All the bad things you hear from neighborhood associations are replicated in communes in different forms. Negotiating and deciding everything together is nice until differences become too big to handle.
2. Introverts or retreating people are sidelined. Because everything is politics, those who network and are good at influence get all the power. Unpopular people don't have equal power. Popular people have excess power.
3. If you work for the commune for 20 years and suddenly things go sour on you, you leave out with noting.
Everyone who want's to build commune or equal society should start with THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS
by Jo Freeman aka Joreen https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm It details power relations within radical feminist collectives,