A native of Kansas City, Mr. von NotHaus first became enticed by making money while living with his companion, Talena Presley, without a car or electric power in a commune of like-minded dropouts in a nameless village on the Big Island in Hawaii.
What do you do when your populace rises up against you, throwing off the shackles of their oppression in an effort to replace your democratic government with a commune of like-minded proletariats, hell-bent on abolishing the class system by any means necessary?
"A grotesque and shameful lie," Ian Holm says in his voiceover narration, and he also describes the obscene misinformation conjured by the Nazis to hide what was really a concentration camp: "A self-sustaining commune of like-minded people: artists, scientists, craftsmen and entertainers".
The political structure Bookchin foresaw -- his approach to the revolutionary dream of establishing communalism or a "commune of communes" -- had little to do with the nation-state.
Like a commune of Filipinos that rejects US law and murders non-Filipinos who trespass on their territory?
The team sit quietly together like novice members of a commune about to meditate.
Only a decade ago, it was a commune, much like any other on the Malian capital's periphery.
We talked for a while about what distinguished a religious community like Hyattsville from a secular commune of progressives.
Our building is so small, it can be kind of like a commune, with people coming and going, but definitely we close out Sunday at home.
Mr. Wright ended up in Detroit in a commune-like house on Manistique Street where it appeared the residents had practiced their own brand of religion.
Maia says Supamolly is like a commune, but without any nakedness.
