communes

There are plenty of working socialist republics, and democratic communes are alive and well (albeit on a smaller scale).

It will not last, as kibbutzes (examples of such communes) did not last in Israel.

As far as your point on communes, can you elaborate on how rent seeking is going to get comparatively more costly?

Size is a difficult problem to solve in itself, but situationally it has been solved with great success: see kibbutzes and communes.

The many early American communes were just as fervently devoted to expansion and industrious exploitation of the land as the cash-driven individualists.

The statement was that historically communes only work out when founded on religion.

The living spaces described aren't communes in any way, shape or form.

Calling these spaces communes is ironic considering how incredibly capitalist they are.

Have you talked to any existing communes about their planning and permits?

Utopian communes in the US predate the Kibbutz by almost 100 years.

People interested in ultra modern flat management structures would do well to look up the history of communes, collectives, and other experiments in self-organizing.

Like communes, but without an anti-tech focus (progress in distributed production technology is what will turn them from bad ideas into good ideas, after all).

Please elaborate on what you mean by "communes." Sounds good to me.

At some point people on the bottom rungs will find it advantageous to work for "communes" instead of employers.

We have a similar idea to those communes already, they are called "businesses".

I meant within the context of "things that have been used as a basis for communes", religion stands alone.

Communes and kibbutzes are almost universally democratically governed, so no it does not lead to a totalitarian state every time.