I keep wanting to form some kind of housing cooperative for people seeking refuge from abusive situations, seeing as how there's currently fuck-all meaningful resources for adult survivors of childhood abuse. I know that despite this being completely nonviolent, legal, voluntary, and well-intentioned operation, that most people won't care or will actively support when some extremists decide to infiltrate and sabotage that effort. Manufactured consent and all. Why does nobody else do things like this? What has prevented the vast majority of other American leftists from simply crowdfunding their own communes, leaving the larger economy, and building their own means of production so that they aren't dependent on the rest of the world for permission to build systems of mutual aid?
If you buy a lot of land in bumfuck they will leave you alone as long as you don't harass/steal from people outside of your commune. Plenty of people do it.
Building your own means of production is another matter. It is extremely difficult and requires a lot of technical knowledge. The type of people who have that sort of knowledge are usually better off than the average joe. Those types have "made it" so to speak in our society. Why would they abandon their privacy and stability to try and create a commune with a bunch of strangers?