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The Plymouth Pilgrims accidentally ran the first documented socialist experiment in America three centuries before Marx scribbled his manifesto. Governor William Bradford's "common storehouse" system from 1620-1623 delivered textbook collectivist results: mass shirking, crop failures, and near-starvation.
Bradford recorded the disaster in detail. Young men "complained that they were oppressed" when forced to work for others without reward. Productive colonists watched lazy neighbors receive equal rations despite contributing nothing. The system "was found to breed much confusion and discontent" because it violated basic human incentives. People starved while fertile Massachusetts soil lay underworked.
The turnaround came swiftly in 1623 when Bradford abandoned the collective model and assigned private family plots. Production exploded overnight. Women and children voluntarily joined field work when their families directly benefited from extra effort. The same colonists who nearly died under socialism suddenly produced abundant harvests under private property.
Bradford explicitly credited private ownership for saving Plymouth Colony. He documented how individual responsibility transformed human behavior within a single growing season. Individual effort cannot be separated from individual reward without destroying both.
Every socialist experiment since Plymouth has repeated this identical pattern. Different century, different continent, same predictable collapse when planners ignore the reality of human nature.
No matter what they call it, whenever and wherever collectivist ideas are put into practice, disaster soon follows.
this is good history, the A Beka private school curriculum from Florida taught this in history and American government classes, I think age is 15 through 18
Interesting post. Can you imagine a central Warehouse now?
That makes me think of the show Pluribus🐸
Socialism didn't work out so well in the Scriptures either.
Thank you for posting this.
Long time listeners of Rush Limbaugh were exposed to this history every Thanksgiving. I learned a lot listening to him, unfortunately he didn’t have any apprentices to carry on his life’s work.
Yeah, socialism conceptually has killed even before it was properly named by its "founder".
Unfortunately socialists will still call this "not real socialism" simply because they see the negative effects and immediately dismiss it. They always think that the socialism theywould be in charge of would some how work magically, ignoring the possibility it will always turn out the same, because it always does.
Marx did not invent the idea of socialism, he stole the idea from another German who predated Marx by nearly 80 years.
The tax system along with SNAP or whatever is basically the same thing. You pay into a common pot, go to the store and see people filling carts with shopping you can't afford, that you paid for.
Lesser humans see this and jump on the gravy train. On a long enough timeline those paying-in have to do something about it.