I lived for six years in an income-sharing egalitarian commune and that wasn't bad, I didn't handle money for months at a time, and I didn't have to put up with any kind of boss lording over me all day. I had a lot of control over my own life and personal freedom on a day to day basis, much more than I do know working in corporate amerika. Only problem is it was basically only one of two large-scale secular communes in the country thats not some sort of crazy cult or has some hierarchical power structure with a charsmatic leader, etc and I decided I wanted to live in more than one place in my adult life. Since I don't see the proletariat taking over and establishing a classless society anytime soon, what is one to do? I don't feel much better off than a chattel slave right now. I hate hierarchy. Please don't tell me to move to Cuba ( I don't want Castro lording over me, either) or try to shove your bourgeois ideology down my throat either. Thanks :) Twin Oaks is where I lived. It's a nice place. Well glad I only have a year to wait then. Do you realize the person who used the term 'Big Brother' to describe a totalitarian system was a socialist who didn't like the Big Brother version of 'socialism' (like me)?
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Go to Iran.
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You don't have to leave America for this!!! There are little places where the proletariat have more power. One such place is Twin Oaks Commune in Virginia, google it. (OH WOW!!! I didn't see it was Twin Oaks you came From!) Nice place~ You may want to consider places like Iceland, Sweden, Denmark. Bjork grew up on an Icelandic commune. There is a nordic green allianc activist group that started in Reykjavik, Iceland. You may appreciate Sweden's 1970s communes. As Scandinavia is more elegant in its ways about design/creativity, so are their communes not quite the mess either. Look at the region of Sweden where the band "The Hives" originated from. It was a very egalitarian place in Sweden. Try lots of intentional communities. Also come to Washington, DC on March 7th thru March 9th of this year and camp out on the campus of American University. You will really like something called NCOR. Google (NCOR, American University). Finding the peace of being a proletariat is a state of mind more than it is a fixed place. It is vested in the quality of a few caring people, and it is about restarting life from scratch and the sacrifice is the hardship of making things yourself. I know EXACTLY what you're feeling and you are ABSOLUTELY not alone! Escaping capitalism is finding a place where the noises of anti-capitalism drown out the otherwise capitalism.
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sit back and relax, your classless society is just one year away. only problem is, you WILL have a big brother who will watch over all you do, just as in any socialist state. then you'll have all the freedom you can handle, right?
