housecommune

English

Noun

housecommune (plural housecommunes)

1. Alternative form of house-commune
   • 1949 July, John N. Hazard, “Soviet Leadership Problems”, in The Political Quarterly:

     There are the apparently outmoded calls for privileges for the industrial proletariat as the "more concentrated, united and educated section of the toiling masses, hardened in battle”; the replacing of antiquated methods of housekeeping by housecommunes, public kitchens, etc ...

   • 2018, Svetlana Boym, Cristina Vatulescu, Tamar Abramov, The Svetlana Boym Reader, →ISBN, page 180:

     The story ends at the start of the construction of a housecommune; we learn about the difficulties of dreaming but not about the consequences of those dreams.