Communal Socialism
Members of the Peace Mission were encourage to pool their individual resources together and invest in businesses, the profits of which were to be dived up and shared. During the 1930s, these properties and businesses were quit numerous. Peace Mission businesses included the Devine Lorraine and Divine Tracy Hotels, farmlands in upstate New York and garages.
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Famous quotes containing the words communal and/or socialism:
“There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
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Except as an abstraction of the mind.
There’s only democratic socialism,
Monarchic socialism, oligarchic
The last being what they seem to have in Russia.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)