Word: communally
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...almost unnoticed demonstration of the perishability of men's dreams. The building had been put up as a "phalanstery" or communal living quarters for the North American Phalanx-one of the most successful of all the Socialist colonies which bloomed across the U.S. in the 19th Century. Never as well known as New England's famed Brook Farm, the Phalanx had lasted twice as long and prospered wonderfully. In its heyday, Horace Greeley, Charles Dana and Albert Brisbane (father of the late Arthur Brisbane) were all its ardent advocates...
...Women were accorded the same rights and wages as men, wore bloomers (which shocked citizens of nearby Red Bank) and did honorable work in the fields. Members gathered almost nightly for plays, lectures, concerts and literary discussion. Religious tolerance and the 30-hour week were integral parts of the communal life...
...wife to leave the making of the Sunday lunch to me ... I make a very excellent Sunday lunch." U.S. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt threw a sharper spear: "Who does the housework in the Soviet Union? Is it always done by the men, or are all the services performed through some communal arrangement...
Tevye the dairyman was really a simple soul. He lived quietly in a Russian village during the early days of the century, when Czarism was cracking and the old Jewish communal life had begun to crack, too. All he wanted from life was a chance to sell his butter and cheese, an occasional glance into the Old Testament or the Talmud, and some reliable husbands for his sprouting daughters. "The Lord," he sarcastically remarked, "wanted to be good to Tevye, so He blessed him with seven female children ... all of them good-looking and charming . . . like young pine trees...
Through all this historical process, everything is relative -meaning that although a slave-owning economy is viewed as deplorable today, it was once, when it had just succeeded the primitive communal system, a "step forward." In other words, there is no "eternal justice." Men's ideas, their point of view (their "consciousness"), are reflections of these contradictions, of these struggling, contending forces, and of their eruptions into new things. Says Stalin: "The material life of society . . . is primary, and its spiritual life secondary, derivative." An example (not Stalin's): in the U.S. frontier days...