Just brilliant, Brad. Only a genuine scholar of history could write this essay. There are so many fascinating details: for example, Bradford's understanding that the foundation of the Plymouth Company was based on a Platonic "conceit" was astounding to me! The man knew his philosophy. And I think you have coined a useful new term - "joint stock communism," - which is pretty descriptive of today's ESG-governed public companies. Your "Conclusion" is superb, a fine summary of the virtues of private property deriving directly from your fascinating story. Thank you.
So, with countless examples of the damage done to human life by communism over the last 400 years, how can it still be so very popular? Are our fellow human beings really that dumb, or is there something else at work?
I think this speaks to the attempts by the modern left to reconstruct or suppress American history. Schools have been picking and choosing what’s most important in history to teach. Only by niche classes, essays like this, or on someone’s own accord, it seems, that people can see it for what it is and was - a failure every time and an attempt to manipulate and seize power.
Thanks for digging so deeply into a fascinating period of human history. Truly the founders came so close to getting things right but in their time, lacked the skills drive a stake through the vampire, altruism. This is the first I’ve know of justice Marshall and I intend to check more of what he had to say. Also, I have an essay on property rights, themed as, we own the rearrangement of molecules we create, relinquishing them back to nature when finished with them for others to use. I’ll post a link if you’d like.
Just brilliant, Brad. Only a genuine scholar of history could write this essay. There are so many fascinating details: for example, Bradford's understanding that the foundation of the Plymouth Company was based on a Platonic "conceit" was astounding to me! The man knew his philosophy. And I think you have coined a useful new term - "joint stock communism," - which is pretty descriptive of today's ESG-governed public companies. Your "Conclusion" is superb, a fine summary of the virtues of private property deriving directly from your fascinating story. Thank you.
Double thanks, Jim. Much appreciated.
So, with countless examples of the damage done to human life by communism over the last 400 years, how can it still be so very popular? Are our fellow human beings really that dumb, or is there something else at work?
I think this speaks to the attempts by the modern left to reconstruct or suppress American history. Schools have been picking and choosing what’s most important in history to teach. Only by niche classes, essays like this, or on someone’s own accord, it seems, that people can see it for what it is and was - a failure every time and an attempt to manipulate and seize power.
Thanks for digging so deeply into a fascinating period of human history. Truly the founders came so close to getting things right but in their time, lacked the skills drive a stake through the vampire, altruism. This is the first I’ve know of justice Marshall and I intend to check more of what he had to say. Also, I have an essay on property rights, themed as, we own the rearrangement of molecules we create, relinquishing them back to nature when finished with them for others to use. I’ll post a link if you’d like.
These essays are so good that I want to print them I have them to give to my kids. Will they be in a future book?