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Wealth is not Property 27 Aug 2013 | 11:13 am
Svetlana Jovanović [Guest post by Ellen, a long-time reader of this blog that I've only just heard from recently. She makes a valid point, one I couldn't have made better myself. It makes me happy t...
What comes first? 21 Aug 2013 | 03:42 am
Lua de Proverbia Without exception, all communities that abide have a unique and specific ideology, or faith, or set of principles, which they accept unquestioningly, and which they attempt to practi...
How (not) to organize a community 13 Aug 2013 | 09:47 pm
[This post first appeared in October of 2010 and met with a mixed reaction. Some people found it painful to hear that resilience and sustainability are often little more than middle-class hobbies, whi...
Communities that Abide—Part V: An Example of Success 6 Aug 2013 | 12:38 pm
Pete Ryan Last week's post featured an extended excerpt from Peter Kropotkin, who counted off the main reasons of failure among communist groups: communal living, small size, and separatism from the ...
Communities that Abide—Part IV: Causes of Failure 30 Jul 2013 | 09:00 am
Up until now in this series my approach has been to present what works: the set of practices which, when put together into a package, allow communities to last a long time—in some cases, for many cent...
Interview on People First Radio 27 Jul 2013 | 06:18 pm
Author Dmitry Orlov says that if financial, commercial, and political collapse are met with appropriate responses, the more extreme aspects of social and cultural collapse could be prevented... (Read ...
The Sea Gypsy Tribe Start-up Manual 23 Jul 2013 | 09:00 am
[This is a guest post from Ray, who sailed off from San Francisco some years ago and has been living as a sea gypsy ever since. Sea gypsies have a lot going for them: relative self-sufficiency and sel...
Communities that Abide—Part III 16 Jul 2013 | 06:37 pm
Alexander Kosolapov There are two organizing principles that self-sufficient communities can rely on in order to succeed: communist organization of production and communist organization of consumptio...
Interview on What Now with Ken Rose 11 Jul 2013 | 04:20 am
Most memorable moment: Ken: So do you think humanity can come together as one family, or is that hopelessly naïve? Me: It's hopelessly naïve. Listen to it here.
Communities that Abide—Part II 9 Jul 2013 | 08:56 pm
Byigor Morski This series of articles is dedicated to the idea that there is much that can be learned from the practices of communities that manage to persist over the long term with their cultures o...
