The Shakers Influence on Communal Societies Episode 15
"Americans have this idea that communes were invented by hippies in the 1960s and 1970s. That could not be farther from the truth. Communal living is as American as apple pie and began in the earliest days of the Republic and even before." Darryl Thompson, Shaker Historian.
Leaving aside discussions of whether Native American Indians were, in fact, the earliest of communal societies (they probably were) communal living among those migrating to the "New World" was a very common thing. The success of the Shakers triggered many new communal groups.
A list of American Utopian communities. [icon]. This section needs expansion. You can help by ... Skaneateles Community, New York, Society for Universal Inquiry, 1843, 1846 ... A group of egalitarian communes based on the French utopian movement, ... The first settlers dissident members of the nearby Equality Colony.
Evolving from communal societies:
Co-Housing
Contacting Darryl Thompson: Shakersleuth@gmail.com
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