Communes seem to need a charismatic leader to succeed - hence the mayfly nature of most nineteenth-century commune experiments - and there's no guarantee you'll get a benevolent Noyes rather than someone voraciously power-mad.
A fundamental design flaw of human groups everyone, really. I hadn't heard of the Oneida Community and it does sound very interesting.
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Date: 2017-07-16 08:44 am (UTC)A fundamental design flaw of human groups everyone, really. I hadn't heard of the Oneida Community and it does sound very interesting.