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Larry Schweikart (FReeper "LS"): America's Socialist Origins (video - 5:38)
Prager University ^ | March 21, 2016 | Larry Schweikart

Posted on 03/21/2016 10:11:48 AM PDT by EveningStar

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at prageru.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alcohol; beer; godsgravesglyphs; history; jamestown; larryschweikart; ls; plymouth; prageru; prageruniversity; socialism
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To: PJBankard

https://youtu.be/eG2POwIwA8E


41 posted on 03/21/2016 6:29:48 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: LS

Terrific, LS! I’m sending the link to several “moderates” I know!


42 posted on 03/21/2016 6:58:27 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Who can actually defeat the Democrats in 2016? -- the most important thing about all candidates.)
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To: EveningStar; LS

That’s a great video, thank you Larry and thank you EveningStar for the post.


43 posted on 03/21/2016 7:55:59 PM PDT by Weirdad (Orthodox Americanism: It's what's good for the world! (Not communofascism!))
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To: EveningStar; LS
Great Job LS! Going to show my grandson. A great home school video with follow-up discussion. Thanks for posting EveningStar.
44 posted on 03/21/2016 8:11:58 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: EveningStar; LS; wardaddy; Ohioan

One of the problems at Jamestown was that the first wave of colonists in 1607 were not cut out for the hard work of carving a colony out of the Virginia countryside. They were not tough blue collar men. They were largely the second sons of a primogeniture gentry seeking to enrich themselves. They thought that they would find gold and they wasted their time looking for it.

They planted the colony in a swampy section of the James river. The river was filled with fish, and had they had the sense and ability to catch them they could have eaten well. But they didn’t. Nor did they have the knowledge of how to plant the crops that they would need, and build the shelter to protect them from the weather. So between a lack of food, a lack of shelter and malaria courtesy of their swampy environment they died in huge numbers. Only 38 of the original 144 lived to see the second year.

The few that survived were put under martial law by Captain James Smith in order that they might survive. It wasn’t really socialism, it was martial law with the survivors forced to live like a military company. Everyone was ordered to spend time farming and building shelter. Unfortunately Captain Smith was badly injured in a gunpowder accident and was forced to return to England. Conditions worsened, the winter of 1609-1610 was the worst of all, the Starving Time. One colonist resorted to cannibalism.

More English colonists arrived along with supplies. What really saved the colony was a small group of Polish workmen who knew how to do practical things like build houses. The unsung heroes of Jamestown.

The colony was a financial failure and the Virginia Company went bankrupt in 1624, just four years after the Pilgrims stopped for a beer run up at Plymouth thinking that they had landed in Virginia. That bunch really did try the commune thing from the start, having learned nothing from the preceding dozen years of experience down in Jamestown. Yankees.


45 posted on 03/21/2016 8:49:17 PM PDT by Pelham (more than election. Revolution)
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To: Pelham

John Rolfe/Pochahontas

12 generations later

Me


46 posted on 03/21/2016 10:34:13 PM PDT by wardaddy (Cruz path to nomination is a box canyon)
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To: Grampa Dave

I’m descended from Hopkins the signer too


47 posted on 03/21/2016 10:35:53 PM PDT by wardaddy (Cruz path to nomination is a box canyon)
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To: LS; boxlunch; ransomnote; IChing; Bratch; laplata; chiller; ebiskit; TenthAmendmentChampion; ...
PING to an excellent, short enough to make you sorry when it is over, video by FReeper LS.
48 posted on 03/22/2016 5:31:58 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion; LS

I’m on it! (For later at home...:)

Thanks for the ping CIC!


49 posted on 03/22/2016 5:36:09 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Thanks for the ping.


50 posted on 03/22/2016 5:43:54 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

BTTT


51 posted on 03/22/2016 5:47:23 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: wardaddy; Grampa Dave
"...I’m descended from Hopkins the signer too..."

Ole Hopkins must have been been a randy dude!

52 posted on 03/22/2016 5:59:35 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: rlmorel

My ancestors on both sides were randy dudes.

5 and up children per family was very normal.


53 posted on 03/22/2016 7:31:46 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (I 'm just another low info/stupid & evil/vile/crazy Trump supporter wanting to select my candidate!!)
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To: EveningStar

Very nice! I’ll have my older kids watch this as soon as I get home. Thanks for posting!


54 posted on 03/22/2016 7:36:13 AM PDT by samiam1972 ("It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."-Mother Teresa)
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To: wardaddy

Hi Cousin!

There is a great book available from Amazon.

“Here shall I die ashore!”, by Caleb Johnson.

It tells about our original Stephen Hopkins stranded on Bermuda after their ship and party left Jamestown looking for food. The book isn’t that big. Still I could not put it down when I started reading it until I finished it.

Reading that and later watching Saints and Strangers, I had a chill go up my back with the realization if he had died, I and my family would not be here.

Later I wondered how much of America would be here if not for the Jamestown and Pilgrim survivors? A distant cousin gave me a heads up on a Faux News special on Jamestown. One of the head historians at Jamestown stated that very fact/question. He wondered if/when America would have been really discovered and be what it is today if not for the Jamestown and Pilgrim survivors finding and setting the foundations of our civilization in those areas.


55 posted on 03/22/2016 7:45:21 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (I 'm just another low info/stupid & evil/vile/crazy Trump supporter wanting to select my candidate!!)
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To: EveningStar
Just in case anyone is interested in opposition research, here is a link to Salon's rebuttal to Limbaugh's Bradford Thanksgiving story.

Rush Limbaugh’s “True Story of Thanksgiving” is a lie-filled load of stuffing that turns villains into victims

-PJ

56 posted on 03/22/2016 7:52:27 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: rlmorel

He only had five surviving children


57 posted on 03/22/2016 8:23:47 AM PDT by wardaddy (Cruz path to nomination is a box canyon)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion; EveningStar; LS

Thanks very much for the ping, c_I_c; post, EveningStar; work, LS. OUTSTANDING!


58 posted on 03/22/2016 8:51:42 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Bttt
59 posted on 03/22/2016 9:45:23 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: wardaddy

LOL, someone went forth and multiplied!


60 posted on 03/22/2016 10:16:30 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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