Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Communalism: From Its Origins to the Twentieth Century

Communalism: From Its Origins to the Twentieth Century

Rexroth, Kenneth
Knabb, Ken

Paperback

General World HistorySocial Movements

Publisher Price: $21.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 8, 2026

ISBN13: 9798887442167
Publisher: PM Press
Published: Dec 8 2026
Pages: 288
Language: English

Let us not seize power, but doing away with it and return society to an organic community of noncoercive human relations.


In this fascinating survey of communalism, Kenneth Rexroth takes readers from its prehistoric beginnings (the primitive communism of hunter-gatherer societies and neolithic villages) through the Essenes and early Christians (who held all things common), millenarian revolts and apocalyptical sects (Anabaptists, Hutterites, Brethren of the Free Spirit), the Diggers in the English Revolution, nineteenth-century utopian communities (Oneida, Brook Farm, Fourierists), to the countercultural communes of the 1960s. Based on extensive historical research, Rexroth's narration is enlivened by anecdotes about the foibles and fantasies of the communalists and worldly-wise comments on the factors that led to their successes and failures.

Also from

Rexroth, Kenneth

View All

Also in

General World History

View All