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Rosabeth Moss Kanter sets out that the measure of the ‘success’ of a commune is the longevity of that community. She specifically applies this to nineteenth century communes, and the reading compares nine ‘successful’ communes – which lasted thirty-three years or more – and twenty-one ‘unsuccessful’ communes that lasted less than sixteen years. She has her reasons for such a measurement. Kanter claims that the ease of measuring the longevity of a community makes it an efficient and suitable tool of measurement. Kanter also argues that the nineteenth-century commune’s main priority was to simply exist.