Word: communing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Outside Income. "Our enemies are the national bourgeoisie and Yanqui imperialism," Toro announced to his "January 26th Compound," which is also known as the "Paradise Commune." Members adopted an eleven-point code of conduct. Among other things, it forbade fighting, wife-beating, card games and the "capitalist sin" of alcohol. Along with communal chores, members read from the writings of Mao Tse-tung, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. At least half of Paradise's adults are unemployed, but leaders boasted that funds were coming in from bank robberies. As Toro said: "We do not promise...
...times Toro seemed determined to provoke a police attack. Chilean authorities seemed equally determined to avoid a confrontation, insisting only that the commune move to a new twelve-acre site half a mile away. Officials even promised to build a park and soccer field near by. Nonetheless, violence finally broke out two weeks...
...account is particularly important for its detailing of the personality of Charles Manson, the alienated ex-con who held apparently total psychic control over the female commune members. She explains how Manson first won her over (by his rendition of the song, "The Shadow of Your Smile"), how Manson saw homicide as a means of instilling "fear in Man himself, Man, the Establishment," how Manson set himself up as a combination of God and Satan, how Manson sought to set off a black versus white blood-bath, how Manson established male chauvinism as one of the commune's fundamental principles...
...that have been written about the case, one can gradually discover some of the new issues this case raises about the use of LSD and mescaline. While, on the one hand, we know these drugs to be often conducive to psychologically peaceful and loving states of mind, the Manson commune brings home the fact that an opposite reaction is also possible...
...home), had spent many years in jail, had failed in an attempt to break into show business. He was more or less apolitical and apparently had a great fear of blacks. His idea of revolution was one in which whites and blacks destroyed each other, while he and his commune escaped to start a new civilization in Death Valley. He saw all men-all except those in his commune-as "the Establishment...