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Commune (intentional community)

A commune is a kind of intentional community where most resources are shared and there is little or no personal property (as opposed to communities that only share housing). The best known communes in the modern world are the kibbutzim of Israel. There are also many communes currently active outside Israel, where they are often referred to as egalitarian communities.

Benjamin Zablocki categorized communes this way:

• Eastern religious communes
• Christian communes
• Psychological communes (based on mystical or gestalt principles)
• Rehabilitational communes (see Synanon)
• Cooperative communes
• Alternative-family communes
• Countercultural communes ("hippies")
• Political communes

Commune intentional community - Bibliography

• Zablocki, Benjamin, The Joyful Community: An Account of the Bruderhof: A Communal Movement Now in Its Third Generation. University of Chicago Press (1971, reissued 1980) ISBN 0226977498 (The 1980 edition of the Whole Earth Catalog called this book "the best and most useful book on communes that's been written")
• Zablocki, Benjamin, Alienation and Charisma: A Study of Contemporary American Communes. The Free Press. (1980) ISBN 0029357802

See also

• Hutterite

Commune intentional community - External link

• "Roots of Communal Revival" by Timothy Miller. A paper on communes in North America from World War I to the 1960s.

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