There are obvious problems with the extrapolation of elements of "private enterprise" of a heavily agrarian period in which market exchange was characterized by independent farmers and artisans to a heavily industrialized period of corporate capitalism characterized by limited social mobility and inequality of opportunity. To add insult to injury, this article seems to operate with a poor technical understanding of socialist/communist economic theory. Apart from the common failure to distinguish between productive "private" property and personal "possessive" property as used in Marxist terminology (watch factories are collectively managed; watches aren't), this was a lovely gem:
The less industrious members of the colony came late to their work in the fields, and were slow and easy in their labors. Knowing that they and their families were to receive an equal share of whatever the group produced, they saw little reason to be more diligent in their efforts. The harder working among the colonists became resentful that their efforts would be redistributed to the more malingering members of the colony. Soon they, too, were coming late to work and were less energetic in the fields.
How is "communism" compatible with assignment of labor without consideration of varying abilities? That seems to fly directly in the face of communism, inasmuch as it entails distribution of labor assignments based on abilities. Compensation offered without consideration of labor performance also seems quite at odds with socialism and its meritocratic nature (as it's reliant on labor performance measurement to determine remuneration), and more akin to capitalism and its remuneration mechanism for the product yielded by the result of the combination of one's labor and one's capital...which means that those with much capital can labor less than those with little.
In short, like the idiotic story about the wise university professor and the naive egalitarian class, this is another empty, pathetic, and intellectually bankrupt anti-socialist chain message, just as creationists will often distribute scientifically ignorant commentary in an attempt to "dispute" evolution.
However, I am not surprised to see another little mythical story advanced that ignores the nature of the brutal slaughter of the indigenous American population, which was the most widespread and long-lasting genocide the world has ever known. As long as so-called Western democracies are permitted to maintain state policies of ethnoreligious supremacy of a certain group and retain the title of "the only democracy in the Middle East," I don't expect much attention to be paid to that issue, of course.
I'm Sorry Were You looking for a Public Rest Room and didn't quite make it? Why not change Your Pants and I'll fix you up a nice BLT Sandwich, and We can Probe more into Your Dysfunction?
Let's start with a Few Basics.
Love God with All of Your Being, Love Others as You Love Yourself.
Equal Justice Under The Law is True Justice, Equal Distribution is Not.
One Industrialist, One Producer, One Free Mind, is More Valued than an Army of Corrupted Non Thinking Incompetent Bureaucrat's.
Communism Does not Serve Equality or Justice, It just Transfers the Property from the Rightful Owner to The Privileged Few. There is no Justice there, but Force of Will. The Mistakes are generally buried in Mass Graves.
I Prefer to exchange Value For Value, Not Value at the point of a gun, or the threat of chains or prison.
People are Not Your Property.
Slavery is a Crime against Man and God.
You have No Right to take from Another What You have not Earned or Purchased, or Received by Consent.
Part of Our Unalienable Rights from God are Life, Liberty, Property, and The Pursuit of Happiness, and the Freedom of Religion.
Totalitarianism is Bad.
It's bad to Kill (Murder) People because They Convert to Another Religion.
It's bad To Kill (Murder) a Girl or Woman, after She is Raped. This is a Horrible Sin against God and Man.
You are confusing "William Bradfords Account of The Pilgrim's Settlement with Grimm's Fairy Tales or Maybe The Arabian Nights ( One Thousand and One Nights)?
Happy Thanksgiving Saladin.
