=By= C Maukonen
Cuba – community in the face of hardship, This springs from the oil embargo against Cuba in the 1990s that dramatically reorganized Cuba society in order to survive. Photo courtesy NACLA
This article and review addresses the issue of, and the need for, community in order to survive the ravages of capitalism. The book that C Mauken includes at length is 150 Strong: A guide to community by Rob O’Grady with forward by Dmitry Orlov. “Dunbar’s number” – an estimate of the maximum workable community size – is 150 members (approximately). So O’Grady is basing his thoughts on community within the context of the research by anthropologist Robin Dunbar, based upon his study of stable primate groups. – rw