Courtesy of Ariadne Umbrella:
The American left has always been religious: John Henry Noyes coined the term Socialist. He had a newspaper about it. He was the founder of the Oneida Cult. They founded the Oneida silverware company to fund their lifestyle. JHN was thrown out of Yale for heretical religious beliefs. He married an older woman who believed he was a perfected saint. He fell in love with another man's wife, and then persuaded her and her husband to join him and his wife in a wife-swapping scheme. They became vegetarians because they could not afford meat. Then more people joined the collective wife-swapping group. They had jobs. I want to say an orchard, a cannery, a silk-thread spinner, and then metal-plated animal traps. Then silverware.
Noyes had newspapers, too, all along. They imported the newspapers to Europe. I want to say, in the vaguest way since I have not checked the timeline, that Karl Marx read these papers, and then plagiarized them. Marx's ideas were more crude, more violent, and more derivative than Noyes.
Noyes definitely read the newspapers published by the Galton/Darwins of Manchester. He implemented their eugenics schemes. He called it stirpiculture. The woman would pledge to have a child then turn it over to the collective to raise. The excellent genes, of course, were the leaders of the cult, not the objectively brilliant at whatever else.
The whole thing turned into a joint stock company when the children refused to participate in the sexual hijinks when they turned teenager.
Oh- birth control. They were the pioneers in birth control, consulting with the American founders of modern obstetrics/gynecology.
The children were 'legacy' and went to Yale. This was before the Ivy League was meritocratic, but they claim to be meritorious. They still have descendants who consider themselves elite humanity. They write books about it.'
Yale has Noyes' papers. It's why Yale is center of the Free Love movement, has Sex Week, and so on. Those are Noyes' writings. He influenced all the top end lefties in America. It takes a lot of smart words to get a grad student in the Northeast to take off clothes in the winter (joke) It's not just hippies in a cali hot-tub b/c it feels good. It is a religion.
They were collectively wealthy and effective, eventually. Oh, also, let's see, descendant of Puritan founders, related to Presidents, home for 10 years of Charles Githeault, presidential assassin. They claimed they didn't like him- but he lived there ten years.
And-churches cucked. They'd have picnics on the grounds of Oneida. It was very pleasant and green. At the same time, the Oneida kids were being taught that outsiders were vicious, selfish, and unholy.
I did mention the age of consent at Oneida- early teens- 12-14? They'd be thrown into beds with middle-aged men and women that they addressed as "Uncle" and "Aunt." The leader
The mothers who pledged to have children signed papers that they would turn the children over. They raised them in their apartment room until age 2, then handed them over to the preschool. The children were supposed to love everyone equally. If a child cried to see his mother, the mother would get punished. If the mother visibly longed for her child, she would get punished. If a child called out for his mother when he saw her during the day, she would get punished, so she had to pretend to not see the child, or respond.
Falling in love was forbidden. One woman fell in love with one man, and was punished by being forced to bear the leaders child. The child died in childbirth. The beloved man had spent each evening during the pregnancy hanging out with her while she prepared- knitting or sewing baby goods. Eventually, those two fled the cult and married and had children of their own.
Apartment buildings next to factories are designed to facilitate grownups having easy sex, and families not being easy to form. It has a signature look, based on the Putney House, which was Oneida. You can see it all over the Soviet Union- trad houses for families, apartments next to industrial factories where people can barely form families. It's built that way on purpose, even if the people don't know or understand. The falling birthrates and weird promiscuity were known about prior to 1900.
Oh- modern haircuts- the bob?- an Oneida innovation, so that women could safely work on factory equipment. Ask yourself why hair pinned back or oddly shaved isn't modern- it's not Oneida.
Bloomers are based on the Oneida women's uniform. Oneida used ticking-cheap, coarse fabric- for clothes. No makeup.
Yale taught the self-incrimination conscience examinations. Noyes picked it up, refined it. Yale missionaries took it to China. Those self- incrimination trials were an Ivy League invention in their seminaries. There's a reason that secular Europeans cannot find anything political and left in America: it's in the seminaries' writings, not in the political colleges.
The founder would use his niece as bait to keep talented workmen. They kept a file system tracking who slept with whom. The "more spiritually evolved" got to have sex with younger, prettier, less used, girls.
When it ended, the women scrambled to find men to marry. Even if they had a child with a man (those cards) the man would marry whom he loved. Many children were left to be raised by single mothers in poverty. The top level kids grew up to inherit stock. They went out into the world and sold silverware. Their one pitch was silverware for young married couples.
They burned the cards in the ??1930s? 1940s? It's recorded that they burned the cards and some of the writings. The newspapers are at Ivy League libraries. I wonder if they have been deaccessioned and destroyed. They like hiding their tracks.
If you wonder why you had to sit through reading about Mary Fish, or watch a movie about her- she's listed as a Puritan founding wife- more importantly, she's the grandmother of the first open atheists in America, and John Henry Noyes ?great great grandmother, or something like that. I mostly believe Miles Mathis because he writes about difficulty with lefty family trees on the web. I had to search for literally years to find that connection, on one site.
One group spawned off from Putney and went to Marin County, California. One old woman ended up living in a barn, apparently a remarkably unpleasant woman. The elderly Oneidans, when visited, would lament that young people would no longer visit and have sex with them. This was both men and women lamenting.