It was a turkey: The failure of the experiment of communal service, which was tried for several years, and by good and honest men proves the emptiness of the theory of Plato and other ancients, applauded by some of later times, — that the taking away of private property, and the possession of it in community, by a commonwealth, would make a state happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God.
Nevertheless, the Pilgrims, and Governor Bradford in particular, were able to observe that the socialist organization of their community was not working and abandoned it after only a year or so for free-market farming. What allowed the pilgrims to be able to see the problem and correct it within a short length of time? After all, the communists had this problem for about seventy years and didn’t do a whole lot about it. A smart aleck response to this question would be "Since Harvard hadn’t yet been founded Bradford and the Pilgrims hadn’t been indoctrinated in socialism in Massachusetts."
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
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That's the beauty of the Spirit of Socialism. It never lets experience teach it anything.
The funny part is, it calls itself "scientific Socialism". Hah! Scientia Pepeana in thought and action.
It's the ultimate Creation Science.....it creates a World of Shit Tacos.
Taranto on topic:
After marking 9/11 with a monstrously bitter screed, former Enron adviser Paul Krugman observes Thanksgiving by trying his hand at humor. Unsurprisingly, he fails, in a blog post titled "Thanksgiving Is Un-American":
Think, for a minute, about what happened on the original Thanksgiving. . . .
Here's how it went down: a bunch of people got together, with each group bringing what it could--the Wampanoag brought deer, the Pilgrims apparently shot some birds, etc. Then everyone shared equally in the feast--regardless of how much they brought to the table. Socialism!
Worse yet, many of the lucky duckies benefiting from the largesse of this 17th-century welfare state were illegal immigrants. (That would be the Pilgrims).
Krugman seems unaware that there was no such thing as an illegal alien before the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. He also seems to think socialism means "sharing," whether or not it involves the coercive power of the state. Which reminds us of a joke: What's the difference between a turkey and former Enron adviser Paul Krugman? One of them is flightless and has a tiny brain, and the other you eat for Thanksgiving.
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