Commune members remained financially enmeshed in capitalism

Evidence

Understandably, this turned out to be much easier said than done in 1960s America, and most of the communes had vexed relationships with the capitalist world outside. After all, mortgages had to be paid, children had to be raised, and most communes couldn’t grow all of their own food. Even if they were far from the city, they were still in America. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 162

Categorization

• XREF: Direct evidence for the reader’s privilege critique — retreat requires material support; partly answers whether Odell’s park/free-time solutions depend on privilege. — connects to: Institut members rejected capitalist values in theory but kept bourgeois habits in practice. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 170; Information-owning firms remain capitalist despite not owning means of production. — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 42; Guild socialism had to survive inside capitalist markets it sought to replace (+1 more)