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Commonwealth College (1923–1940) was a college started to recruit and train people to take the lead in socio-economic reform and prepare them for unconventional roles in a new and different society.
14 ago 2023 · Commonwealth College. Arkansas’s most famous attempt at radical labor education was the accidental by-product of natural beauty, cheap land, and desperation. Commonwealth College was established in 1923 at Newllano Cooperative Colony near Leesville, Louisiana.
14 giu 2021 · Commonwealth College was a radical experiment in socialist education nestled deep in the Arkansas mountains. It taught and trained over 1,500 worker-activists before becoming an early casualty of American anti-communism.
15 apr 2007 · Commonwealth went on a search for some inexpensive rural land that would be suitable for an experimental college that intended to be self-sufficient by growing its own food. The college made an...
miles northwest of Mena, Arkansas. Commonwealth College was Arkansas' sole claim to progressive labor education. It was frequently a target of local and state critics, who associated its faculty and students with the bugaboo of in-ternational Communism. But there is no proof that either the college or its faculty and students were ever interna-
Founded in 1923 in Louisiana and relocated a year later to Arkansas, Commonwealth College was a resident labour college on a self-sustaining communal farm. Cobb describes how its Debsian socialist leaders dreamed of educating the industrial class to create a utopian cooperative commonwealth.
William H. Cobb illuminates the history of the extraordinary group of students and staff of Commonwealth College and the rich intellectual life produced on the self-sustaining communal farm in...
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