The Six Waves of Communitarianism: A History

 

A. Allen Butcher

    

1st Wave

1600s and 1700s

Spititual and authoritarian; German/Swiss Pietist and English Separatist.
2nd Wave

1840s

 Secular: Anarchist Socialist, Associationist, Mutualist Cooperative, Owenite, Perfectionist. Religious: Christian Socialist, Adventist.
3rd Wave

Crested in the 1890s
(50 years after the 2nd wave)

 Hutterite, Mennonite, Amish, and first Georgist single-tax colony.
4th Wave

1930s
(40 years after the 3rd wave)

 New Deal Green-Belt towns, Catholic Worker, Emissary, School of Living.
5th Wave 1960s
(30 years after the 4th wave)		 Peace/ecology/feminism.
6th Wave 1990s Cohousing, ecovillages, various networks.


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