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To: Jack Hartmann who wrote (94042)	2/10/2009 12:10:29 PM
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"Sorta like those FEMA trailers." There are similarities, but it was different then: it went 'way past housing. In the commune, nobody got a free ride. All men were expected to work. I'd say it was more like Habitat For Humanity habitat.org - but neither comparison is correct, and there were different types of communes and co-operatives. It would take more space than we have, to say "how" it was different, but the differences extended to real disillusionment with capitalism, the rise of communes, Communism and socialism, and the widespread belief that ordinary people had been ripped off. There was starvation, there were riots, there was mass disillusionment. Katrina doesn't even come close. Jim

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