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:
“A communal horse anybody can ride.”
—Chinese proverb.
“This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)