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?
Historically, the anarchists of Home, WA were charged with violating the Comstock act for distributing seditious literature and skinny dipping. They were also harassed by the nearby town of Aberdeen. This lead to a division between "the nudes and the prudes" (they were united on the seditious literature) leading to the split and eventual downfall of the commune.
So, that?
But they did get to see speeches by Emma Goldman and William Z. Foster before they went so I think it was worth it.