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  • When US tried Communism [ History of Jamestown: 1607 to 1611 ]

    10/31/2008 7:15:01 AM PDT · by Arthur Wildfire! March · 25 replies · 2,203+ views
    The Himalayan Times ^ | 24 Jan 2005 | Rakesh Wadhwa
    I write this especially for our Maoist brothers. While the US is commonly vilified as the bastion of capitalism, it is little known that the US too has tried communism. It was only when communism failed that property rights and capitalism took hold. Let us go back into history and see what lessons America learned from its relatively short dalliance with Maoism much before the ‘great leader' himself was born. The year was 1607. The first 104 settlers had arrived from Europe in Jamestown in the Virginia Tidewater region of the US in May. They found soil which was fertile...