In the 60s in the United States, a hierarchy almost always happened and the leadership almost always took advantage of their credulous followers, both leaving them dependent (and if it collapsed, stranded) and often creeping on them as well.
I'm not saying communes are always doomed to failure, but :grillman: in their youth that eventually became corporate climbing psychopaths sort of learned how to exploit people in their own amateur communes first.
Make sure all leadership is distributed and compartmentalized by category (leadership is many things, not one thing), or at least fully recallable.
Don't require that the commune encompass all of a person's life. Start with just a couple essentials and build up instead of trying to implement everything new all at once.
For goodness' sake locate it close to some kind of urban area. Social claustrophobia is a thing, plus it's healthy to have people relating to others outside, plus you want an avenue to bring people in.
In the 60s in the United States, a hierarchy almost always happened and the leadership almost always took advantage of their credulous followers, both leaving them dependent (and if it collapsed, stranded) and often creeping on them as well.
I'm not saying communes are always doomed to failure, but :grillman: in their youth that eventually became corporate climbing psychopaths sort of learned how to exploit people in their own amateur communes first.
The solutions to this are pretty straightforward.
Make sure all leadership is distributed and compartmentalized by category (leadership is many things, not one thing), or at least fully recallable.
Don't require that the commune encompass all of a person's life. Start with just a couple essentials and build up instead of trying to implement everything new all at once.
For goodness' sake locate it close to some kind of urban area. Social claustrophobia is a thing, plus it's healthy to have people relating to others outside, plus you want an avenue to bring people in.