Prager University – America’s Socialist Origins
In a new video for Prager University, history professor Larry Schweikart of the University of Dayton explains how America’s early settlements tried social communism but decided against it due to starvation.
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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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One must wonder about the core values of the community, seeing that it failed, when comparing the Kibbutzim in Israel which functioned relatively well providing the State with the needs to function and grow in the initial period.
They moved onto a parcel of land, put up their stockade and began functioning without having to eat shoelaces and rats.