Larry Schweikart (FReeper "LS"): America's Socialist Origins (video - 5:38)

Prager University ^ | March 21, 2016 | Larry Schweikart

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Was America once socialist? Surprisingly, yes. The early settlers who arrived at Plymouth and Jamestown in the early 1600s experimented with socialist communes. Did it work? History professor Larry Schweikart of the University of Dayton shares the fascinating story.

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I’ve done my share no doubt

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Good deal!

Very timely. See Equality Truths We Just Won’t See

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Thanks for the BEEP, by the way.

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The colonies were no picnic at first, or for a long while, which points to the real motivation of the great migration in the 16th and17th centuries -- flight from the power struggles in Britain between merciless and bloodthirsty tyrants both aristocratic and secular.

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