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The First Great Experiment in Capitalist vs Collectivist Economy: 1620s Plymouth

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Libertas:
http://www.endofinnocence.com/2010/04/communism-vs-free-markets-at-plymouth.html

Keeping the fruits of ones labor.   ::thumbsup::

Property rights.   ::thumbsup::

Free value-based trade.   ::thumbsup::

This kinda reminded me of Rush's story - the true story of Thanksgiving: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2010/11/24/the_true_story_of_thanksgiving3

And just because I was in the neighborhood I thought I would puit this link in here too, seeing as though these brave colonists produced the men who built this nation - http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/pages/static/my_father_s_speech

 ::cool::

LadyVirginia:
thank you


--- Quote ---John Hart of Trenton, New Jersey, risked his life to return home to see his dying wife. Hessian soldiers rode after him, and he escaped in the woods. While his wife lay on her deathbed, the soldiers ruined his farm and wrecked his homestead. Hart, 65, slept in caves and woods as he was hunted across the countryside. When at long last, emaciated by hardship, he was able to sneak home, he found his wife had already been buried, and his 13 children taken away. He never saw them again. He died a broken man in 1779, without ever finding his family.
--- End quote ---

that got to me

Libertas:
Yes, "lives, fortunes, sacred honor"...meant something then...today?  Not so much.  But the need will arise and the call will go out again. 

LadyVirginia:

--- Quote from: Libertas on August 15, 2013, 11:12:36 AM ---Yes, "lives, fortunes, sacred honor"...meant something then...today?  Not so much.  But the need will arise and the call will go out again.

--- End quote ---

And it will be answered.

whimsicalmamapig:
what amazes me is that there are so many examples of the failure of communal societies (I can barely find an example of a truly successful one unless you include Christian and buddhist monasteries.)

On what examples, other than hope and faith, do these delusional lefties base their continued advocacy for "share the wealth" policy.

Have we allowed the losers to run the country, are they so afraid that they won't succeed that they strive to create a system whereby they are assured an existence in spite of their inability to compete and win? 

I think we should just start referring to the left as a sorry lot of losers who want to game the system, whether it be through guaranteed food, medical care, educational opportunity or employment so that everyone is eligible for a trophy at the end of the game and no one can be called a loser since everyone won?

I think this whole communism thing is based on the feelings of personal inadequacy feelings of karl marx. after that every poor loser globbed onto his theory as a way to forestall the label of loser by a communal sharing of mediocracy

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