Showing posts with label collectivism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collectivism. Show all posts

Sunday, March 25, 2012

American SITREP: Left Versus Right Equals Same Goals


We have come to know terms like “left wing” and “right wing” - opposites in the political arena of America. To be extreme “Left” is to be a socialist or a communist, while a radical of the “Right” are considered fascists. But people don't realize that the three political ideologies have a common factor, a purpose one might say, and that is collectivism. 

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Remember November 1623

A Lost Thanksgiving Lesson
By John Stossel
RealClearPolitics.com
November 24, 2010

Had today's political class been in power in 1623, tomorrow's holiday would have been called "Starvation Day" instead of Thanksgiving. Of course, most of us wouldn't be alive to celebrate it.

Every year around this time, schoolchildren are taught about that wonderful day when Pilgrims and Native Americans shared the fruits of the harvest. But the first Thanksgiving in 1623 almost didn't happen.

Long before the failure of modern socialism, the earliest European settlers gave us a dramatic demonstration of the fatal flaws of collectivism. Unfortunately, few Americans today know it.

The Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony organized their farm economy along communal lines. The goal was to share the work and produce equally.

That's why they nearly all starved.
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