See the difference?

Communism requires certain economic principles that can't be defined into a singular group of hippies if the hippie movement has very few shared values.

So you just disagreed with your own meme?

No, I was *agreeing* with *you*. There's theory and then there's practice. The hippies weren't communist per se, but I'd say they were as close to it in practice as could be done voluntarily. Instead of trying to overthrow the government and society by force, they in effect led (or tried to lead) by example on a small scale.