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Hello, look, why not spend the night at my place, said a post-grad student of mine when he learned I was

to lecture in a nearby town, but he waited until my arrival to explain what he meant by my place.

You should know this is a commune, he said, showing me to my room.

It's all about, you know, sharing.

And it was, from the days I spent spent there I found it all very refreshing to

see the equality with which all the tasks were allocated, the proud way in which the

occupants spoke of having well broken away from bourgeois modes of living.

The manner in which any disputes were resolved in

sort of democratic house meetings. Very good I thought,

although I did have the sense that everyone was just a little bit too anxious

to tell me about how well the experiment was going. All of which made me especially

interested in a new book by an anthropologist which looks in depth at several communities of squatters in Amsterdam.

It's a book that specifically sets out to examine the contradictions between what people say and what they practice when their houses not so much a home as an ideological experiment.

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