I remember in David Horowitz’s book he talked about Sunnyside, Queens being a center for communism also.
I’m in a tiny farming community but communists were farmers too.
My neighbor has an planning map of it as a much larger planned community with seperate barracks for unmarried farmhands, cottages for married farm workers and workers with children. Mill workers live by the dam, ice workers by the lake and icehouse by the rail line. They expected several thousand people here. There are less than 200 today and its perfect.
I wonder how they would feel seeing this tiny town with their main drag as my private driveway and my house sitting where their icehouse did.