Oneida Community
The Oneida Community was a socially utopian religious community in Madison County , New York . It was founded in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes and was finally dissolved in 1881. The writer Aldous Huxley , himself a follower of Noyes, described the Oneida community as follows:
“The Oneida Congregation existed for thirty years, and from what you can hear its members were exemplary citizens, unusually happy, and far less neurotic than most of their Victorian contemporaries. The wives of Oneida were spared what one of Noyes' correspondents described as' the wretchedness of married life as it is generally in the world '. The men saw their self-denial rewarded with a physical and spiritual experience deeper and more precious than that of rampant sexuality. "
The Oneida Community Mansion House has survived to this day and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965. It still exists today as a museum.
literature
- Rudolf Stumberger : Communist America. On the trail of utopian communities in the USA. Mandelbaum, Vienna 2015 ISBN 978-3-85476-647-6
swell
- ↑ Love Rush and Drug Peace , Die Zeit , July 29, 1994
- ↑ pp. 64-114