If I recall, some radical communist guy tried this once in South America. How did that work out?
JonestownThe
Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "
Jonestown", was a remote settlement in
Guyana, established by the
Peoples Temple, a
San Francisco-based
cult under the leadership of
Jim Jones.
The settlement became internationally known when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#cite_note-auto-1][1][/url][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#cite_note-2][2][/url] people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in
Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in
Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#cite_note-off-3][3][/url]
Jonestown was held up as a benevolent
communist community, with Jones stating: "I believe we're the purest communists there are."[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#cite_note-q050-39][39][/url] Jones' wife, Marceline, described Jonestown as "dedicated to live for socialism, total economic and racial and social equality. We are here living communally."[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#cite_note-q050-39][39][/url] Jones wanted to construct a model community and claimed that Burnham "couldn't rave enough about us, the wonderful things we do, the project, the model of socialism".[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#cite_note-40][40][/url] Jones did not permit members to leave Jonestown without his express prior permission.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#cite_note-41][41][/url]