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The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett7/2/2023 Noyes often used his own judgment in determining the partnerships that would form, and would often encourage relationships between the non-devout and the devout in the community, in the hopes that the attitudes and behaviors of the devout would influence the non-devout.”Īnother criticism of these intentional communities is that they seem to be doomed to failure if created in isolation, without the simultaneous destruction of the capitalist system. Likewise, older men often introduced young women to sex. Furthermore, these women became religious role models for the young men. John Humphrey Noyes implemented a form of group marriage called “complex marriage.” As described in the wikipedia entry for the Oneida: “Postmenopausal women were encouraged to introduce teenage males to sex, providing both with legitimate partners that rarely resulted in pregnancies. The Oneida, famously, had an odd cat running the show. As scholars of American intentional communities have pointed out, they often were plagued by such problems. The historical evidence seems to support this fear. A common response to anarchist suggestions of the value of “intentional communities” (I think I am getting that term of Hakim Bey) is that they tend toward internal despotism, superstition or tradition.
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