Ping. Exactly the same history that Rush mentions regarding the pilgrims.
Those of us reared and educated in Virginia know this story well.
KGB agent tells how amazed he is that soviet plans to demoralize all of America has worked so well. (This was in 1985!)
The trademarks: Amana, Whirlpool and Oneida are successful industries begun by these communes. they survive while the communes did not!
“Communism doesn’t work because humans do no wish to sacrifice themselves to the common good.”
But let’s keep in mind that humans WILL sacrifice themselves for an ideal (freedom) and for their friends. Witness the 30 soldiers at the Atlanta USO last Sunday who were on their way (or on the way back) to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Colonel, USAFR
Plymouth Colony almost starved themselves to death following this route. Things didn’t change until they got a clue and allowed people to establish property rights to their farmlands and products of their labor.
The greatest failure of communism lay in the truth of when “need” is greater than “ability”. No fallout plan.
Apparently 100 million dead and hundreds of millions more enslaved is not enough to deter the diehard socialists and communists in the US from trying it again.
About a thousand years ago, I went to the Hill Demonstration School in Cleveland, Mississippi. It was sort of a redneck version of Sidwell. In the fourth grade we were exposed to an experiment where everyone’s grades were averaged, and everyone in the class got the average grade. My recollection is that the class was coed and twenty-four or twenty-five students, so we were all well interconnected and mutually supportive of each other. The first averaged grade was a middle range “B” to my recollection. The grades rapidly deteriorated to failing, at which point the teacher called off the experiment and explained that we had been experimenting with a form of communism in which the class high achievers had been deprived of their incentive and even the low achievers (of which there were very few)were not inspired to their normal level of achievement, and the overall result was a failing effort.