The Soviet's tried this in the early 1920s, cramming 5 person families into 1 person studio apartments (by 19th century European standards), with cramped communal kitchens and all amenities shared. The purpose being to enhance the experience of communalist life and encourage people to only use private spaces for the minimum of time. It failed, spectacularly. Everyone hated it, everyone immediately tried to move back to their unheated slums.
This is how you get entire suburbs to declare counter revolution.
I love clear counterexamples like this. Reminds me of the group that tried to “collectivize” parenting because they saw the family unit as inherently patriarchal. Turns out kids need to make a strong bond with a small number of caregivers if we don’t want them to develop attachment disorders. That’s not to say the nuclear family doesn’t have other toxic baggage from patriarchy and capitalism, but the fundamental concept is there for a reason
The Soviet's tried this in the early 1920s, cramming 5 person families into 1 person studio apartments (by 19th century European standards), with cramped communal kitchens and all amenities shared. The purpose being to enhance the experience of communalist life and encourage people to only use private spaces for the minimum of time. It failed, spectacularly. Everyone hated it, everyone immediately tried to move back to their unheated slums.
This is how you get entire suburbs to declare counter revolution.
I love clear counterexamples like this. Reminds me of the group that tried to “collectivize” parenting because they saw the family unit as inherently patriarchal. Turns out kids need to make a strong bond with a small number of caregivers if we don’t want them to develop attachment disorders. That’s not to say the nuclear family doesn’t have other toxic baggage from patriarchy and capitalism, but the fundamental concept is there for a reason