The rush to build factories, communes and communal dining halls into models of miraculous Communist plenty began to falter as waste, inefficiency and misplaced fervor dragged down production.
The reason this logic has not worked--the failures of communes and communism come to mind--is because egalitarian ideologies have thrown the baby out with the bathwater.
They have failed to recognize both the many different causes of violence in the communes and the diversities within the communal movement.
There were cults, there were communes and there were causes.
They didn't actually want to live in communes and share mung beans with their neighbours.
Others, like Ms. Kinkade, wanted to grow, create new communes and get on with the mission of transforming society.
There were chaste Christian communes, and others where there were no doors on the bedrooms and monogamy was banned.
It was then that Deng Xiaoping dismantled agricultural communes and returned land to the people who farmed it.
The condition leads the family on a series of moves between doctors and alternative therapists, health communes and cities.
Most of the population were forced to work on giant rural communes and deprived of private life.
Lacking a man's customary front-side equipment, these social outcasts live in segregated communes and are unable to father children.
