However, the militant socialism of Marx, Lenin, and Mao dominating the Socialist world then, held no appeal for me. I knew they were very wrong to try to convert the Capitalist world by force. True socialist society cannot be dominated by militarists. Militarists are always willing to sacrifice naive young men and women and their own society's economic support system to do battle with the enemy whatever it is. It was clear to me that capitalists would not only win the wars against militant socialist societies but would make money doing so.
War is a very lucrative capitalist enterprise.
The various communitarian experiments in the last century and in the 1960's communes didn't have any answers either as their experiments in social change either died within a few years or lasted only through totalitarian-like commitment to the group's leader or leaders and the group or cult lifestyle, e.g. the Mennonites, Hutterites, Amish, and the farther out cults today. In the early '70's I and my wife and another communitarian organized a small commune with a primary goal of organizing a larger cooperative community. We were an activist commune, really a collective, unlike the more numerous spiritual and flat-out hippie communes. We worked hard and built our own small cabins surrounding a main communal farm house. We became proficient in the French Intensive-Biodynamic organic gardening technique and produced abundant crops using very little water, very little arable land, and no machines.