Since 2004, Really Really Free Market events have been held in San Francisco, New York City, Washington D.C., and other cities throughout the country to form a non-hierarchical collective of individuals practicing the principles of a gift economy in order to counteract capitalism in a non-reactionary way.

Getting together in community and sharing stuff, time, and talents isn't just a recent phenomenon, though. In an account of the early church in the Christian New Testament, it says that "all the believers were together and had everything in common" and that they "gave to anyone as he needed" (Acts 2). It's good to know that retro is still in!