jun 29, 1840 - Brook Farm Utopia

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Transcendentalist communities were formed in response to increasing industrialization, such as Brook Farm. However, most of them, including Brook Farm, did not survive that long. Brook Farm failed because in its quest to become a self-sufficient, utopian society, a shift towards Fourierism (Fourier that advocated the transformation of society into self-sufficient, independent “phalanges”) caused financial hardships.

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