What would you call Twin Oaks?

[JTB]

Would you call it socialism? If so, what 'school 'or 'flavour' would you call it? What of the rest of the FEC?

[mikelepore]

I don't think a residence where 100 people live and pool their incomes should be called socialism. The people at revleft seem to be more divided over the question of whether socialism can refer to a country or whether it refers to a socialist world, but is there anyone here who would say the word socialism to refer to an income-sharing home for 100 people?

[Dean]

I don't think a residence where 100 people live and pool their incomes should be called socialism. The people at revleft seem to be more divided over the question of whether socialism can refer to a country or whether it refers to a socialist world, but is there anyone here who would say the word socialism to refer to an income-sharing home for 100 people?

It's an isolationist hippie commune. I do think its socialist within itself, but as a community it hasn't been able to free itself from wage slavery. It has unfortunate primitivist-ecoliberal characteristics. It's not what most people here on RevLeft are looking for, in any case, but I wouldn't condemn them or anything.

[RGacky3]

Just because its not a revolutionary movement does'nt mean its isolationist, its not at all, I don't see how its primitavist at all, I think your just throwing words around.

[Dean]

Just because its not a revolutionary movement does'nt mean its isolationist, its not at all, I don't see how its primitavist at all, I think your just throwing words around.

I should have used the term "luddite."

But they are isolationist. Uninvited visitors are "tunred away," which seems to define the group as a closed community.

[mikelepore]

Uninvited visitors are turned away because it's someone's house. I don't open up my own house as thought it were a public park. The only difference is they are a hundred people. They combine all of their incomes into one account. My wife and I combine just two incomes into one account. They are best understood as a large family living in a large house with a joint bank account. It's not a social system.