Word: communing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...START on this project, Unger devotes the last chapter of Knowledge and Politics to a "theory of organic groups." He sketches a society of small, democratically-run communes. They are close-knit enough so that everyone knows the other members and has a form of "political love" for them, relating to them not in their work roles but as individuals. The inhabitants have lost all sense of pure self-interest and think only of the interests of the commune...
Each group might be defined by the occupations of its members, part of hierarchically-arranged system of communes. The task of the top commune would to insure peace and order throughout the system. Unger envisions in this system a harmony of the structure and the consciousness of its citizens...
...torture in a South African jail. Now he is the house humanitarian for a local corporation, supervising a back-to-the-land project. Its design: to drain revolutionary energy away from foreign investments and native rulers. Jimmy Ahmed, a racial mix of yellow, black and white, runs this sham commune as a means of assembling responsive young boys; his heart is back in London, where trendy liberals once puffed him up from criminal to Third World celebrity. Roche's English mistress is a bored adventuress who likes to taunt men. This trio forms, as things turn out, a menage...
Davin describes himself as a "working class kid from Arizona who was lucky he was able to afford finishing high school." He moved to Cambridge seven years ago to study drama at the Loeb and stayed. He now lives in a commune in North Cambridge "surrounded by the middle class...
Smock said he is an ex-professor of History at Wisconsin State University. Mark Orewiler, an associate disciple of Christ, said yesterday that since Smock found God in a commune in North Africa, the ex-professor has been spreading the gospel on college campuses...