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# Over 10,000 Hippie Communes Established in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s  . . .  Gone
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/over-10-000-hippie-communes-established-in-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s-gone/
- Published: 2026-11-04T13:00:49.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-04T13:00:49.000Z
- Description: Mostly gone, anyway. Why'd they disappear? Life was too freakin' hard. (Blog Post)
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: History, Technology

[**Thaddeus Russell describes what it was like to live on one of those self-sufficient communes**](https://link.amazon/B0i6AY8bq?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). It was, in a word, arduous. 

> These “intentional communities” were typically established in remote locations so as to re-create agrarian, preindustrial society. \[H\]ippies on most rural communes—at least those that were not funded by the inheritances of independently wealthy members—were forced to work more than the average American worker. . . Water was hauled from natural sources, wells were dug with shovels, food was grown without farming machinery, daily quotas of bread were baked in homemade ovens, clothes were made without sewing machines, and dwellings were built, log by log and brick by brick, by hand.

Most of the hippes said, "F'\*\*\* this" and left. Hundreds of the communes still exist, but few, if any, exist in their original "break sod and churn butter like the pioneers" format. The ones that remain use an evolved economic system (e.g., men get ordinary jobs and they pool their money).