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Some Principles for Running an Urban Commune
| (1) | To share one’s goods with others. In the degree that this can be done, the group love will flow through; in the degree that it cannot be done, the community will merge with the majority culture, quarrels will develop, and the people will fence themselves off in separate units. |
| (b) | A ‘no shit’ rule. The forbidding of drugs may seem a useless restriction of freedom. Yet, as things stand, the recurrent sickness of the drug-users, the lack of capable workers . . . and the inevitable police raids, will break up the community sooner or later, if the ‘no shit’ rule is not kept pretty closely. The drug-users can still [shelter] in crash-pads and suffer those afflictions inseparable from their mode of life. It is a different matter, though, if drug-users come to the commune to get off drugs. They can be [accommodated]. |
| (c) |
A ‘no booze’ rule. The legal aspect of this rule is less compelling than that of the previous rule. Drink as a beverage can no doubt be used. But it is hard on . . . dry alcoholics . . . in my commune, if others are drinking. And the money needed for food may often be spent on drink. One has to consider too that booze parties frequently . . . 1972? (674) |