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Yeah, I would strongly challenge the premise of the question. Is a temporary commune even a failure? Is a long lived one necessarily a success? Are there 50 y
by jrumbut 4y ago
Yeah, I would strongly challenge the premise of the question.
Is a temporary commune even a failure? Is a long lived one necessarily a success?
Are there 50 year old hippie communes we haven't heard of?
- boomboomsubban 4y ago>Are there 50 year old hippie communes we haven't heard of? Yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farm_(Tennessee) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farm_(Tennessee) There are probably others too.
- danielvf 4y agoThe Farm only lasted 12 years as a commune, before switching over to people earning their own income and paying rent. Still perhaps comparable to the amish though.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoIt still calls itself a commune.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoTwin Oaks (VA) is probably the other prime example. And then of course, the kibbutzim in Israel, though almost all of them have radically transformed themselves since they were founded.
- emodendroket 4y agoWell if your commune is a runaway success I guess you just become a communist country.