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Whats a Commune, Really? - CommunityFinders Communes can be economically stable: Many sustain themselves through shared businesses and pooled resources, providing financial security Get an inside look into the largest commune in the US in this short video, Inside America’s Hidden “Utopia” Commune
Commune - Wikipedia Agricultural commune, intentional community based on agricultural labor; Commune (rebellion), a synonym for uprising or revolutionary government Paris Commune (1789–1795), the government of Paris from 1792 until 1795
What Happened To America’s Communes? - Forbes New ideas spawned an interest in communal living China’s sprawling communes championed by Chairman Mao Zedong in that era received global attention and study Yet the U S had as many as 3,000
Hippie Communes: 31 Eye-Opening Photographs Of Life On A Commune Each hippie commune was different: some were deeply religious communities while others were completely secular Drug use was rampant on some hippie communes and forbidden on others Some were strictly self-sufficient agrarian societies, but other hippie communes participated in capitalism by owning businesses and selling rock albums
Commune | Cooperative, Collaborative Sustainable | Britannica Many communes are inspired by religious principles; monastic life is essentially communal (see monasticism) B F Skinner’s Walden Two (1948) inspired many American attempts at communal living, especially in the late 1960s and early 1970s See also collective farm, communitarianism, kibbutz, moshav
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Medieval commune - Wikipedia Medieval communes in the European Middle Ages had sworn allegiances of mutual defense (both physical defense and of traditional freedoms) among the citizens of a town or city These took many forms and varied widely in organization and makeup