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Monks were mostly self-sufficient in a feudal economy though. The equivalent is probably some commune where the collective occasionally publishes a zine.
Only small minority were, as most monastic orders were founded to pray and only in some monks laboured. Overwhelming most of monasteries were funded with some kind of backing, so they either had serfs or some other income as fiefs. Both catholic and orthodox churches were nearly always biggest landowners in their countries.
Medieval life hack for self sufficiency: all you need is a simple robe, a vegetable garden, a modest lifestyle, discipline and community, a constant stream of large sums of money for taking in third born born sons of aristocrats, high taxes paid to you, being a landlord over large areas of fertil land and of course literally owing the poor peasant who live there and do backbreaking labor for you. Actually, scratch the modest lifestyle.
Like a Marxist Invisible Committee or a Marxist CrimeThinc