the counter-culture and communist communes in the middle and late 19th century, just like the people's communes pictured by Gustave Courbet in his paintings The Wheat Sifters. It enabled people to fight for freedom of speech and equality, and support people to exercise autonomy to end the long-term government interference. 

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Courbet, G. The Wheat Sifters(1855)