Lots of communes broke up because only a small core of believers actually wanted to follow all the rules
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Bernie Sanders is a great example: a socialist who literally moved to Vermont to become a crank political activist and had no interest in drugs, communal living, or any of that
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I was a working class lefty and joined a newspaper collective because I thought they would dig my rampant drug use and alcoholism- they hated the shit out of it, kept trying to reform me because I was politically unreliable I was)
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The hippies of San Francisco had a funeral for "Hippie, Child of Media" in the summer of 1967. The best book on the movement is Joel Selvin's "Summer of Love." Just fantastic. Also, need to be aware of Beth Bailey's distinction between "counterculture" and "youth culture."
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