A Brief History of America's Utopian Experiments in Communal Living between 1800-1860 by Lawrence Reed

Very recommendable! You can skip about the first 8 paragraphs or so. Utopia and dystopia are often close together.

Volunteer communism and collectivism has been tried before. It did not work very well in most cases!

There were about " 119 or so utopian communities of early 19th century America"

The Dark Side of Paradise: A Brief History of America's Utopian Experiments in Communal Living - Foundation for Economic Education What Brook Farm and other utopian communities of the 19th century sought is essentially unachievable. Yet the idea of a collectivist paradise remains alluring to many even today.