Many of the Hippies ran off to start communes where they could live outside mainstream society in actual socialism.
Only to have them all implode, because building community infrastructure from the ground up is hard, dirty work; and almost all of them were happy to sit on their ass and let everyone else do the work.
Even ten or twenty percent of the community being freeloaders is unsustainable at the subsistence level. The people who work the hardest see the freeloaders take their stuff, and they get cross. They leave, and it all falls in a heap.
Hippy Communes were a fantastic case study of why Socialism doesn't work without totalitarian control.
Many of the Hippies ran off to start communes where they could live outside mainstream society in actual socialism.
Only to have them all implode, because building community infrastructure from the ground up is hard, dirty work; and almost all of them were happy to sit on their ass and let everyone else do the work.
Even ten or twenty percent of the community being freeloaders is unsustainable at the subsistence level. The people who work the hardest see the freeloaders take their stuff, and they get cross. They leave, and it all falls in a heap.
Hippy Communes were a fantastic case study of why Socialism doesn't work without totalitarian control.