[SMARTY]

According to y Gasset, "...Communism, now there is a piece of moral extravagance..."

Also, the Europe the Pilgrims left was still in a stranglehold of the monarchies.

If you didn't live in the country, then you HAD to have a trade in order to live anywhere else in the cities.

Living in the rural areas, you were nearly a vassal of the lord, and worked HIS land at HIS pleasure. Your produce was strictly accountable to him. You could not help yourself to a stick of firewood or a pheasant or anything else on his land (which is where you had to live.) You could freeze or starve in the midst of plenty. You committed infractions to this rule on pain of serious punishment.

It's one of the many reasons that they left Europe and probably why the pilgrims attempted what they thought was the more equitable plan of communal production when they arrived here. However, Capitalism is the better and the more efficient way. BUT requires, absolutely DEMANDS representative government to even approach equity of opportunities and means. The real magic in this whole equation is that the pilgrims recognized this and made the necessary changes in time so that the failed system was not permitted to become entrenched.

[Matchett-PI]

"..However, Capitalism is the better and the more efficient way. BUT requires, absolutely DEMANDS representative government to even approach equity of opportunities and means. The real magic in this whole equation is that the pilgrims recognized this and made the necessary changes in time so that the failed system was not permitted to become entrenched."

Exactly. Click my screen name and read the very first item on my profile page. :)