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Is this "real community" even a thing, or an ideal in itself?

I can guess that there still might be a few groupings of revolutionaries who're experiencing this way of life (in isolation now, tho?), but I think they are more communes than communities.

A community, see, is the original definition for a religion. It doesn't have to congregating around spiritual beliefs; it can be around just about anything. But they need to associate together based on common ideas, values, interests. A nonprofit bike shop, for instance, is not even this. They'll often be an okay neutral zone for people to meet up and maybe hang out together, but that's it. They are not a mutuality, a commonality, a shared sensibility. That's the case with many of the so-called "communities". They aren't a way to relate to another.

A true community is.