Talk:List of anarchist communities

Twin Oaks an anarchist community?

Why is Twin Oaks considered to be an anarchist community? B.F. Skinner was not an anarchist, and Twin Oaks does not present itself as an anarchist community. Ghostofnemo (talk) 13:36, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

They have aristocracy and bureaucracy without social solidarity or housing equality. They allow oppressive managers, mean bastards, and bad consent. A few anarchists live there, but only a couple pairs talk to each other regularly within their cliques. Only a couple anarchist members have spoken out against Twin Oaks inequalities, but a couple anarchist members are at least as problematic as they are beneficial. Some resident anarchists and communists have struggled against Twin Oaks rules and norms, but either Twin Oaks kicked them out, they left, or Twin Oaks assimilated them, even using them against other resident critics. --Frenzyface (talk) 20:31, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

East Wind

"East Wind is a large, overwhelmingly white, community. (I’m not sure of its current makeup, but there have generally been one or two folks of color among the sixty odd member community.) It is also, of all the FEC member communities, the one with the largest percentage of working class folks. It has an unfortunate reputation for racism of the more overt kind. Much of that is from some incidents which occurred in 2018 which some East Wind members engaged in rather racist behavior which led to at least two members of color leaving East Wind and a very uncomfortable FEC Assembly that year where we tried (without much success) address racism (as well as sexual misbehavior and transphobia).

"As far as I know, East Wind has never directly addressed this stuff (at the Assembly they were mostly defensive) but my understanding is that the folks responsible for the worst of the racist behavior are now gone–and left some time ago.

"Paxus has referred to East Wind as the ‘wild west’ of the FEC communities. I see them as leaning toward libertarian and laissez-faire.

"They are, as I said, a bit of a white working class community, and the issues of race and class become uncomfortably intertwined here. During the Assembly, I saw white folks from higher class backgrounds attempting to lecture East Wind folks (often using jargon and somewhat academic language) on their behavior and the East Winders involved generally felt condescended to.

"I can’t see East Wind as a community apologizing for their behavior. They promote individual liberty there to the extent that during the pandemic, while Twin Oaks and Acorn (and Glomus) used quarantining to ensure safety, there was no direct response by the East Wind community other than affirm individual rights. I am frankly amazed that they did not get hit by the coronavirus–and I still worry for them." Frenzyface (talk) 11:25, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Acorn

Acorn had a mass departure this year because a bunch of members perceived the community as being controlled by only a couple people. Frenzyface (talk) 11:29, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

The article cited for Acorn says they were "a self-described “anarchist ... community”", but no one continues to identify that way and barely has any idea who started that label. --Frenzyface (talk) 13:52, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Saigon Commune wikilink fix

Hi, noticed there was a 'missing page' for the Saigon Commune. Please link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotskyism_in_Vietnam at the "The September 1945 Saigon Uprising" part of the article, it's the Saigon Commune page. I would, but I can't because I am a guest. Thanks. 69.120.194.40 (talk) 23:24, 30 April 2021 (UTC)