RE: Ask a communist economist
July 19, 2015 at 10:58 am
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2015 at 11:02 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:The pilgrims (early colonist pilgrims in what would become Massachusetts kind of pilgrims) tried pretty hard to make the bible form of communism work but couldn't make a go of it. I'd relish an analysis of their experience and would love to know what they did wrong.They forgot to bring the means of production with them on the boat. Not kidding.....there was no substantial or significant investment in -food production-. They were not farmers and did not bring the tools required. Obviously, they had no other productive capacity available to them to shore up that glaring (and exceedingly strange) oversight. This situation would continue on the continent in total (not limited to the early colonists) but common to each subsequent wave even as society and civilization (western civ, mind you) developed, for nearly 50 years.......thereafter only ramping up slowly and sporadically until the civil war (when industrial war demanded industrial production).
Not the only reason they failed....but a huge portion of it.
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