Intentional Communities and Liberal Policies of Cultural Support

Some theoreticians argue that the stability of liberalism is to a large extent an outcome of a continued existence of traditional and other forms of life in communities, which are able to slow down or hinder the immoderate expansion of individualism, but that liberal societies are liable to destroy that foundation of their stability. However, liberal society cannot allow the destruction of the existing forms of communal and communitarian life, because it would mean its destabilization. On the contrary, where traditional communities do not play their stabilising role, liberal societies must change their social and cultural policy in order to generate some new forms of communitarian and communal life. The article deals with some constructive and destructive influences of liberalism on the communities constituted around separate concepts of the good. It shows that modern societies may be fertile soil for a variety of cultural and other communities.