[merrylander]

You need to look up Clemenceau of France, his demands for reparation destroyed the Weimar Republic and set off wild inflation in Germany. If you were a stamp collector you would have seen 100 Mark stamps surcharged 10 Billonen. They said you went to work on payday with a wheelbarrow to bring home your salary, but by the time you got it home it would not buy a loaf of bread.

Many men have no work in the cities would go to the farms and work the farm just for room and board, a few potatoes were better than starving. The whole climate was ripe for Hitler and his brownshirts. Then with still no work the army looked better than starvation, the rest is history.

The Utopians (we had ours, there was a group in New York the Oneida Community, my former wife's father was mixed up with them). They thought they could form a perfect society and they were only one of many - all failed. People still persevere, witness hippy communes.