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The Fall of Communism in Virginia...

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...by Murray Rothbard

An excellent piece for those truly interested in such scholarship...

...anchored in the primary political lesson so many of us seem to have forgotten.

The incentives provided by the charter of 1609, however, were still only future promises. The colony was still being run on “communist” principles — each person contributed the fruit of his labor according to his ability to a common storehouse run by the company, and from this common store each received produce according to his need. And this was a communism not voluntarily contracted by the colonists themselves, but imposed upon them by their master, the Virginia Company, the receiver of the arbitrary land grant for the territory.

The result of this communism was what we might expect: each individual gained only a negligible amount of goods from his own exertions — since the fruit of all these went into the common store — and hence had little incentive to work, or to exercise initiative or ingenuity under the difficult conditions in Virginia. And this lack of incentive was doubly reinforced by the fact that the colonist was assured, regardless of how much or how well he worked, of an equal share of goods from the common store. Under such conditions, with the motor of incentive gone from each individual, even the menace of death and starvation for the group as a whole — and even a veritable reign of terror by the governors — could not provide the necessary spur for each particular man.

...Of the 104 colonists who reached Virginia in May 1607, only 30 were still alive by that fall, and a similar death rate prevailed among new arrivals for many years. As late as 1616, only 350 colonists remained of a grand total of over 1,600 immigrants.

Much more @

http://mises.org/daily/5908/The-Fall-of-Communism-in-Virginia
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You mean to tell me that an early colony in Virginia lost most of it's members? Stop the fucking presses!
 
After a night to reflect on this, I think this OP might possibly go down as one of Lit's most legendarily stupid/funny posts. The only thing keeping it from the top spot is that it is not divisible by 5.
 
A for profit company doling out the fruits of it's workers labours and keeping the profits is communism? Sounds pretty much laissez faire capitalism to me.
 
SeanH said:
A for profit company doling out the fruits of it's workers labours and keeping the profits is communism? Sounds pretty much laissez faire capitalism to me.
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It's one of those posts that keeps on giving. Maybe a too obscure to go gold, because you have to have a little historical knowledge to know all the reasons it's funny. But still, it's fantastic.
 
CHNOPS said:
It's one of those posts that keeps on giving. Maybe a too obscure to go gold, because you have to have a little historical knowledge to know all the reasons it's funny. But still, it's fantastic.
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Yeah, I think too many will pass it over because they don't know enough to fully appreciate the stupidity involved. Hell, I'm sure there are layers of stupid in the OP that I don't get because I don't know enough of the subject. Someone better versed in the early colonies and companies that ran them would surely find much more to laugh at.
 
CHNOPS said:
After a night to reflect on this, I think this OP might possibly go down as one of Lit's most legendarily stupid/funny posts. The only thing keeping it from the top spot is that it is not divisible by 5.
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5 is a prime number
 
I dated a communist Russian last summer. She was hands down the most beautiful woman I ever went out with - and I've gone out with some real beauties, believe you me.

She quit calling me though. I guess she had learned all my secrets and went back to Mother Russia for a debriefing. Of course, she could have just gotten bored with me. That happens a lot. I don't really have a way with women, despite having quite a few first dates. The second dates are the deal killers. Probably because I'm smoking hot, but my rugged good looks doesn't adequately compensate for my abrasive personality.

Not surprisingly, she lived in Virginia.
 
JohnnySavage said:
I dated a communist Russian last summer. She was hands down the most beautiful woman I ever went out with - and I've gone out with some real beauties, believe you me.

She quit calling me though. I guess she had learned all my secrets and went back to Mother Russia for a debriefing. Of course, she could have just gotten bored with me. That happens a lot. I don't really have a way with women, despite having quite a few first dates. The second dates are the deal killers. Probably because I'm smoking hot, but my rugged good looks doesn't adequately compensate for my abrasive personality.

Not surprisingly, she lived in Virginia.
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They've been maintaining an underground Communist cell there since 1609.
 
i'm staying the fuck out of communist russia because time travel might destabilize the fragile space/time continuum and send us spinning into a crazy reality where black is white, right is wrong, and i'm not cool and good looking
 
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