[OT] Early Puritans' experiment with communism

Author: Nicholas Geti

Posted: 2012-01-29 22:47:21 Link

http://www.garynorth.com/puritan_economic_experiments.pdf

Read page 6 of this document describing the failure of their first experiment in common ownership of land and goods. It didn't work then and isn't working now. The young men refused to work the fields and the women thought dressing meat and washing clothes for the common good was nothing more than slavery. Once land was distributed and each family could work their own property, harvests were bountiful.

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Re: [OT] Early Puritans' experiment with communism

Author: Stephen Russell

Posted: 2012-01-30 09:58:46 Link

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Nicholas Geti <ngeti@optonline.net> wrote:

> http://www.garynorth.com/puritan_economic_experiments.pdf

> Read page 6 of this document describing the failure of their first experiment in common ownership of land and goods. It didn't work then and isn't working now. The young men refused to work the fields and the women thought dressing meat and washing clothes for the common good was nothing more than slavery. Once land was distributed and each family could work their own property, harvests were bountiful.

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Didn't Bradford do that to stop one family from setting such a high

value on Indian goods that everyone else in the community could no

longer trade?

In that it was a reaction to the family that was given much of the

fertile land.

The whole basing who you were by your family and their ability to

profess better born again stories for the community. That was the

initial fail that the colony had to overcome.

Stephen Russell

901.246-0159 cell

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