Yeah, I would strongly challenge the premise of the question.
Is a temporary commune even a failure? Is a long lived one necessarily a success?
Are there 50 year old hippie communes we haven't heard of?
Is a temporary commune even a failure? Is a long lived one necessarily a success?
Are there 50 year old hippie communes we haven't heard of?
Yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farm_(Tennessee)
There are probably others too.
And then of course, the kibbutzim in Israel, though almost all of them have radically transformed themselves since they were founded.