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In attempting to analyse the decline of the counter-culture, a decline which was brought about by a multitude of external and internal factors, one might most usefully begin by examining the fortunes of the British commune movement of the 1960s which, at least in theory, had the potential to provide viable institutions for the alternative society.
In five years, the Alternative society has less than a hundred acres and we’ve still hardly begun to work together.
Communes, no. 33 (June 1970)
… if flower-power has gone to seed then germination must soon begin. And what King Weeds they’ll be.
Frendz, no. 32 [61] (August(?) 1972)
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Notes
M. Fleming, The Anarchist Way to Socialism: Elisée Reclus and Nineteenth-Century European Socialism (London, 1979) p. 55.
Some excellent studies of earlier commune movements may be found in W. H. G. Armytage, Heavens Below: Utopian Experiments in England, 1560–1960 (London, 1961);
K. Rexroth, Communalism: From its Origins to the Twentieth Century (New York, 1974);
D. Hardy, Alternative Communities in Nineteenth-Century England (London, 1979);
and of course, M. Buber’s classic work, Paths in Utopia (London, 1949).
A. Rigby, Alternative Realities: A Study of Communes and Their Members (London, 1974) p. 98.
M. Rowe (ed.), Spare Rib Reader (Harmondsworth, Middx, 1984) p. 13.
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Nelson, E. (1989). The Decline of the Counter-Culture. In: The British Counter-Culture, 1966–73. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20217-1_5
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