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The Oneida Limited company (of silverware fame) is what remains of a utopian community from Upstate New York where communism, free love, and eugenics were practiced.

There are 4 "utopian" communities still active in the United States. The Fairhope Single Tax Corporation in Fairhope, AL. The Arden Village in Delaware. The town of Post, Texas. And Twin Oaks in Virginia

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1. The General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park was originally named the Karl Marx Tree by the Kaweah Cooperative Colony, a socialist utopian community that settled on the land prior to the park's establishment.

2. The father of Louisa May Alcott (Little Women) started an Utopian community that failed soon after opening due to food shortages

3. In 1967, The Beatles had intended to purchase a Greek island where they could start their own "utopian community."

4. There is a scientific utopian community in Siberia modeled after Francis Bacon's vision of a "New Atlantis." Formed by Soviet scientists with the full support of Khrushchev, they believed their science, liberated from ideological, economic constraints, would help their country surpass the West

5. Kibbutzim, collective Utopian communities, produced 9% of Israel's industrial output, and 40% of its agricultural output in 2010.

6. There was a secrective, bohemian community who settled in California's sand dunes in search for a utopian life.

7. The Beatles planned to start their own utopian community on Greek islands