re: #129 buzzsawmonkey

Communism was very popular in the US in the early 19th century. That was the era of Utopian communities. Bronson Alcott—Louisa May Alcott’s father—was involved with one, the name of which I forget. The Amana colony was one, IIRC.

In any event, communist communes were hot stuff back then—a sort of precursor to the hippie “back to the land” movement in the late 1960s, and not much more successful in the long run.

As an interesting side note, it was also during that period that Mordechai Noah tried to found Ararat, a city of refuge for the Jews, on an island below Niagara Falls. That, too, failed.

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They ALL failed - AS - All were against Human Nature to ONE DEGREE or another.

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