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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 de ago. de 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.
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.
14 de jun. de 2024 · Founded by socialist education reformers, Commonwealth College in Mena, Arkansas, published hundreds of issues of its newspaper, the Fortnightly, from 1926 to 1938. This digital collection provides fully searchable access to more than 200 issues.
Commonwealth College in Mena, Arkansas, published hundreds of issues of its newspaper, the Fortnightly, from 1926 to 1938. This digital collection provides fully searchable access to more than 200 issues, allowing researchers to utilize the most complete record of activity at Arkansas’s historic radical labor school.
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...
