Every year around Thanksgiving Rush would tell this story.
And it didn’t work.
Yes, El Rush-Bo included this insane attempt at what is basically a commune.
The Real Story of Thanksgiving
https://officialrushlimbaugh.com/the-true-story-of-thanksgiving/
The Pilgrims nearly starved because they practiced a form of “socialism” or collectivism—holding all property in common—which destroyed the incentive to work. They thrived only after Governor William Bradford assigned private plots of land, introducing free enterprise and creating a massive harvest.
Didn’t work.
They had the good sense to abandon socialism.
I thought Jamestown common store was the first colonial attempt at socialism (1607).
and this would not count what seems to be numerous partially successful attempts by native americans (eg cahokia collective land management, etc) well before jamestown.
And…they nearly starved.
I wonder how many socialist European countries would have collapsed by now if not propped up by the US.
My ancestor Richard Warren among them.
Yeah. And it failed
I’ve told my kids in their younger years, that communism only works in a loving family.
Well there was Joseph in Egypt
Curiously, everywhere, every time it’s tried, the socialist experiment produces the same results. Scarcity, greed, coveting, sloth, famine, starvation, death. When weaponizd - forced upon a previously successful group or country - it causes genocide.
Dementiacrats call this a success story and believe if it’s ONLY done just a LITTLE bit differently, it’ll produce different results.
I actually learned this in elementary school 50 years ago. Amazing, it seems history keeps repeating.
Marxism is the theoretical perfect form of government with the following flaws.
1. It defies human nature and instinct and thus fails. I will work for myself but not for you unless compelled. Marxism compels with brute force, guns and violence and death. About 160 million deaths since 1917, the Russian revolution.
2. The rule of the proletariat becomes the rule of the elite swiftly. The proletariat becomes the ruled again. The Kulaks are killed. They are most annoying creatures to the Marxist elites though they feed Russia. Not a problem for the elites as they controlled the food. The Pheasants starved by design most particularly in the Ukraine.
3. It does not work. Russia was a failed nation with a lot of nukes before it collapsed thanks to Ronald Reagan. It was the largest nation on earth with vast resources yet economically a disaster. That is what Marxism does. Efficiency goes down the tubes, corruption expands. It always fails.
Addendum:
China is an odd case. It was a Marxist failure for many years. It no longer is such and has great success. They pretend to be Marxist but in reality are a capitalistic dictatorship. Oddly their embarrassment of capitalism has made this the most dangerous nation on earth. They now have the money to do bad deeds around the world.
If Marxism worked I would be a Marxist. It does not work and only brings death, destruction and tragedy.
Funnily enough, I just started to read Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims again, and now I see this article.
No. The Jamestown Colony in Virginia had socialism when founded in 1607 and abandoned the system in 1611 after this system was a major contributor to “The Great Starving Time” during the winter of 1610. That winter led to the deaths of 2 out of every 3 colonists at Jamestown.
True, but later socialists didn’t have any problem with enforcing the “if you don’t work you don’t eat” rule on their subjects.
Yeah. It didn’t work out for them. There always will be lazy losers.