> What we now know as the Free Love movement began in the US in the 1850s, and was shaped by the ideas of the French socialist Charles Fourier and the anarchist

> What we now know as the Free Love movement began in the US in the 1850s, and was shaped by the ideas of the French socialist Charles Fourier and the anarchist Josiah Warren. Some interesting intentional communities and wild social experiments came out of this. See: Oneida stirpiculture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneida_stirpiculture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneida_stirpiculture Oneida Community https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneida_Community https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneida_Community > Oneida was formerly known as Oneida Depot. In the nineteenth century its residents were among the closest neighbors to a utopian socialist commune, set up by John Humphrey Noyes, lasting from 1848 until 1881. This commune, called the Oneida Community, produced silk and canned goods until the manufacturing of flatware picked up in the later years of the Community's existence. This would lead to the foundation of Oneida Limited, a company which survived the Community and became one of America's most important flatware producers in the twentieth century. Another intentional community, Temple of the People, was established late in 1898, also in New York like Oneida. They were not based on free love, but on Theosophy. They did have similar notions about unconditional love in a Christian brotherhood sort of way. They moved to Halcyon, California, in 1903. John Varian raised his family here, including the famous set of engineers, Russell and Sigurd Varian, whose inventions are often credited with establishing Silicon Valley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_and_Sigurd_Varian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_and_Sigurd_Varian