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Utopian Communalism: A Comparison Of 19th And 20th Century Phenomena In The United States, Truman David Wood

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The utopian communal phenomenon has been present in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The longevity of various religious and secular utopian communal experiments is examined in terms of four organizational factors and the twentieth century communes are considered in terms of four ideals. The main stream of American society has assimilated nothing from these utopian communal experiments.