Communities #199 (Summer 2023) Freedom and Responsibility

Volume 2023 - Issue 2

Communities #199 explores different ways of balancing Freedom and Responsibility in community. Authors describe a wide range of approaches to community participation, money, childrearing, individuality, and interdependence, tracing personal stories that suggest expanded understandings of both freedom and responsibility. Several parents and grown community children recount formative years spent in intentional communities with sometimes sharply contrasting cultures and ways of balancing autonomy and group-orientation. Six-plus decades of personal communal experiences combine with larger historical perspectives in what we believe to be a fascinating issue—we hope you’ll agree!

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