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Ron E. Roberts' conceptualization of a certain kind of communal society or communal
organization. "Communities of mobilization" are those
communal organizations serving a "revolutionizing" function in the larger
society of which they are a part. Whereas "communities
of therapy" protect the individual from social change, "communities of
mobilization" are advocates for social change. Says Roberts, "We have also
mentioned communities of mobilization that are political and often revolutionary in
makeup. Three examples of these organizations come to mind - the Kibbutzim of Israel, the Ujamaa villages of Tanzania, East Africa, and the communal farms of The Peoples Republic
of China. All of these communities stress cooperation like most of the communes in
America, and in some sense all are experimental. All of these communities are committed to
economic and political development - not individual psychological strength. Obviously, the
political climate in the three countries just mentioned is extremely different, but all
three stress the nation-building aspects of their communal growth. Moreover, all three are
ideological, that is, committed to a political (or in the case of some Kibbutzim,
religious) ethic." - Ron E. Roberts, Sociology With a Human Face
(Dubuque IA: Eddie Bowers Publishing, 1983)
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