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The Great Communal Experiment Archive: How Twelve Utopian Dreams Died Over Dirty Dishes and Stolen Cheese

From 19th century utopian settlements to 1970s California collectives, every intentional community followed the same trajectory: grand ideals, communal cheese theft, and endless meetings about whose turn it was to clean the toilet. A comprehensive guide to humanity's most predictable failures.

Comrade, Your Portfolio Is Lovely — Now Get On The Truck

History's communist states had a surprisingly efficient system for dealing with humanities graduates: they sent them to do something useful. A darkly instructive tour through what the Soviet Union, Maoist China, and Castro's Cuba actually did with their surplus of creative souls — and what it means for anyone currently recording a podcast about decolonizing their moisturizer routine.