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Fromm was highly influential on the various communes that developed in America after the violence following the 1968 chicago democratic convention. Half a million leftists, hippies, bohemians etc gave up on protesting and trying to change the country, instead moving into communes. Many of these communes adopted structures based on Fromm's synthesis of marx and freud. In particular, they decided to avoid/ban people forming cliques or interest groups regarding the running of these communes. Communes were to have regular "democratic" meetings where concerns and grievances would be aired as individuals. Inevitably, these communes became dominated by "alpha" personalities, most of whom were abusive. This was a significant reason as to why these communes failed although there were other factors.

Many of the radical feminists in 80's academia were products of the dismal and destructive failure of these Fromm influenced communes.

It is strange that there is a lack of literature written about and documenting the failure of the 60's/70's commune movement