Communalism

Name: Communalism
Brand: PM Press
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From Its Origins to the Twentieth Century

By: Kenneth Rexroth, Ken Knabb (Editor)

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Paperback | 8 December 2026

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Let us not seize power, but doing away with it and return society to an organic community of noncoercive human relations.

In this fascinating survey of communalism, Kenneth Rexroth takes readers from its prehistoric beginnings (the "primitive communism" of hunter-gatherer societies and neolithic villages) through the Essenes and early Christians (who "held all things common"), millenarian revolts and apocalyptical sects (Anabaptists, Hutterites, Brethren of the Free Spirit), the Diggers in the English Revolution, nineteenth-century utopian communities (Oneida, Brook Farm, Fourierists), to the countercultural communes of the 1960s. Based on extensive historical research, Rexroth's narration is enlivened by anecdotes about the foibles and fantasies of the communalists and worldly-wise comments on the factors that led to their successes and failures.

For this new edition, Ken Knabb has added notes, updates, a bibliography, and a new introduction.

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