--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > Is interesting that some core Icarian groups were rooted enough in the > founding principles that they jettisoned the founder (Cabet) even while he > lived and then groups lived on as communal Icarians for several more decades. > In the very end it seems there were a few old conservatives who were of the > founding generation or knew the founding generation and then the younger and > some newer members not raised-up by experience in the founding experience who > then agitated as they came to it for change within. It's another good > example of how it can go with the loss of group shakti in time to stale > organization and doctrine. > >
A 1972 Annals of Iowa paper on Icaria looks more at the cause of dissolution, " "...20 months ago, in April 1876, a demand for separation was presented by the young progressive party to the old conservative one." ... It is noteworthy that this letter assigns the cause of the trouble to "...an old leaven of enmity which was brought from Nauvoo. ..." The letter then goes on to describe, in detail, the conditions at Icaria as a result of the Young and Old Branches, as they were termed. In April 1876 the Young Branch demanded the dissolution of the community. In doing so they laid the blame for the trouble on Cabet," "One author characterized the old group as follows: "The struggle for survival had made them conservatives, instinctively turning their backs on the world." The next document of importance... This document states that the basis of the division lies, not in the history of the movement, but in the divergent ideals of the two groups." Wow, does that sound familiar. > > > > Icaria. Interesting life-cycle of a utopian group, w/ principles becoming > > dogma and rigid personalities in the middle of its own 'in the here and > > now' by comparison, > > Icaria in Iowa: > > > > http://www.past2present.org/own/annalsonline/AdamsCo/A1867April_Icaria.pdf > > >
