New Harmony: America's failed 19th-
century socialist experiment
Posted By: DVC, 2/25/2020 2:54:03 AM
The history of socialism in America did not begin with Bernie Sanders or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Rather, it began in 1825 on the banks of the Wabash River in Indiana. On April 27 of that year, Robert Owen, a Welsh textile manufacturer-turned-philanthropist, welcomed 800 eager arrivals to the settlement he had christened New Harmony. New Harmony was to be a "community of equality" heralding a new way of life. Owen's followers would soon coin a new name for his vision: "utopian socialism."
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An American example where socialism foundered on the rocks of failing to grasp two fundamental human traits. Unconstrained laziness, and the removal of personal gain for personal effort. When you can get something for nothing, the slugs line up and nobody works. So, soon enough, you get nothing for nothing, and everyone starves. Or works at gunpoint in a few cases.
More than 100 million murdered by socialists/communists in the last century, desperate to "make communism work" and that isn't including the ones who just starved due to incompetent government.