Usually, in the communities movement, “commune” is a term-of-art for “an income-sharing community”. So, your list doesn’t really reference surviving secular communes.
The Farm stopped being an income-sharing commune many decades ago. Now it’s more like a co-housing community, with private ownership or control of most things.
Dancing Rabbit’s founding income sharing group disbanded many years ago, but it’s core mission wasn’t about being income sharing, and the community continued just fine without having an income-sharing subcommunity.
Earthhaven was never income-sharing, to the best of my knowledge.
So I don’t think any of these are really counter-examples; a business that new members can plug into (and a mechanism to exclude free-loaders, which The Farm didn’t really have) are both really important for a long-term successful income-sharing commune.
The Farm stopped being an income-sharing commune many decades ago. Now it’s more like a co-housing community, with private ownership or control of most things.
Dancing Rabbit’s founding income sharing group disbanded many years ago, but it’s core mission wasn’t about being income sharing, and the community continued just fine without having an income-sharing subcommunity.
Earthhaven was never income-sharing, to the best of my knowledge.
So I don’t think any of these are really counter-examples; a business that new members can plug into (and a mechanism to exclude free-loaders, which The Farm didn’t really have) are both really important for a long-term successful income-sharing commune.