When the Welsh social reformer Robert Owen established New Harmony in 1825, on 20,000 acres in Indiana, he attracted an enthusiastic following, gaining more than 800 members in just a little over six weeks.
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- New Harmony
- Year: 1825
- Location: Indiana
- Size: 20,000 acres
- Members: 800 in first 6 weeks
- ideals
- environment
- education
- abolish private property
- problems
- low percentage of hard skills
- 140 of 800 had skills contributing to local industry,
- 36 were skilled farmers
- indiscriminate and allowed too many without skills to join
- intentional communities are often the most attractive for a dangerous constellation of actors
- dreamers,
- drifters,
- seekers in need of belonging,
- the needy and wounded,
- the egomaniacal and power-thirsty
- free riders, lazy and without skills
- founder was absent a large percentage of the time
- low percentage of hard skills