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In reply to the discussion: Does anyone believe that the CHOP protest achieved something? [View all]haele
(12,654 posts)I was living in Berkeley while my parents were going to University at the ages of four through seven when the collective movements started in the Bay area. I remember how they always seemed to start out great while the guiding collective management got everything started, but once it started to gather remoras - borderline personalities who to ether were preditors looking for idealistic prey or emotionally stunted men- and women- children who just wanted to be taken care of.
The only collective from that era that managed to remain a true collective for at least a couple decades was The Farm in Tennessee, which was more of an easy-going Mennonite community that modeled itself more as a short-term rehab/refuge/back-to-nature educational business providing equal community partnership shares for permanent residents than a theoretical anarchist commune.
The serious among the CHOP community experiment will hopefully get a better understanding of the risks and rewards of managing a community - primarily, that true anarchy only benefits those who are ruthlessly and emotionally four; and that a commune that works still requires management and rules for appropriate community behavior at the very least.
Haele