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** Support us on Patreon and join the Make World community: https://patreon.com/makeworld ** This is the first part of a multi-part series looking at Kommune 1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kommune_1) , the original radical German commune of the 1960s. The series is based around interviews with K1 communard Rainer Langhans (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Langhans) .  In this episode we discover Rainer's childhood under Nazism, and how that fed into the desire to establish a new mode of anti-authoritarian living in Kommune 1. We look in detail at the commuards' intense self-investigation and interpersonal 'mirrroring', and why this led some to dub them 'The Horror Commune'. How were these techniques rooted in the the theories of Wilhelm Reich (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich) , Herbert Marcuse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse) and the antipsychiatrist RD Laing? Finally we move on to the key actions which propelled Kommune 1 to fame: the so-called 'Pudding Assassination (https:/