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.
None of the communist / socialist / anarchist utopian communities attempted in the US ever succeeded. They all failed, and usually within a year or two. The only thingthat kept them afloat for even that long was an available sugar daddy, like Robert Owen. Once they ran out of money - collapse. And most of them collapsed even before that happened.
The only thing that differentiated the US utopians is that they never quite got around to slaughtering those who didn’t agree with them. Soem might argue that John Brown the abolitionist was one such example, but he doesn’t quuite fit the mold of our noble dreamers.