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    "title": "The Pilgrims: Communists! (But not for long.)",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2011-11-25 19:06:42 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s one of the ironies of American history that when the Pilgrims first arrived at Plymouth rock they promptly set about creating a communist society.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, they were soon starving to death.</p>\n<p>...</p>\n<p>Among Bradford\u00e2\u0080\u0099s many insights it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s amazing that he saw so clearly how collectivism failed not only as an economic system but that even among godly men \u00e2\u0080\u009cit did at least much diminish and take off the mutual respects that should be preserved amongst them.\u00e2\u0080\u009d  And it shocks me to my core when he writes that to make the collectivist system work would have required \u00e2\u0080\u009cgreat tyranny and oppression.\u00e2\u0080\u009d  Can you imagine how much pain the twentieth century could have avoided if Bradford\u00e2\u0080\u0099s insights been more widely recognized?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/11/thanksgiving-lessons.html\">Thanksgiving Lessons -- Marginal Revolution</a></em>.</p>\n"
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