From: mars1933@hotmail.com   
      
   By Hadding   
   Rush Limbaugh and the Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock   
   On 26 November 2014, Rush Limbaugh ended his daily three-hour show   
   with a parable about the Pilgrims who legendarily inaugurated the   
   American holiday known as Thanksgiving. He read about it from his book   
   See I Told You So.   
      
   What the Pilgrims originally established, says Limbaugh, was a   
   commune, with all property and all production shared equally by the   
   community, without regard for whether one individual had been more   
   productive than another. Limbaugh points out that this communism   
   failed, understandably, because there was no individual incentive to   
   work and produce.   
      
   As a solution to this problem, Limbaugh tells us, the land that had   
   been held in common was divided into plots, and each family given a   
   plot to till and harvest. This system produced such an overabundance   
   of food that they ended up giving some of it away to the local   
   savages.   
      
   Where Limbaugh goes wrong is in calling this latter arrangement   
   capitalism.   
      
   Making sure that everybody has property is not capitalism. It conforms   
   to the economic doctrine known as distributism. Distributism is an   
   important ideal in National-Socialism, Fascism, and also Catholic   
   social doctrine. Limbaugh has hammered a square peg into a round hole   
   by calling the Pilgrims' economy "capitalist."   
      
   Under capitalism, instead of a plot being assigned to each family, the   
   Pilgrims would be expected to borrow money to buy land. Due to   
   differences in credit, some would be able to buy more land than   
   others, and some would end up with none. The ones who could not get   
   any land would have to try to get employment with the ones who did.   
   Then, of those who were able to buy land, it is certain that with   
   excessive production of food -- which drives down the price -- some   
   would not bring in enough money to cover the interest on the loans,   
   and they would lose their land, so that they too would then have to   
   seek employment. In the end, under capitalism, unemployment would   
   force most of the Pilgrims to find new farmland in less desirable   
   locations outside of the colony, where they could produce for   
   themselves and survive, while within the colony a small minority of   
   capitalist Pilgrims would own most of the land, probably forming a   
   trust among themselves to make sure that they do not overproduce food   
   and drive the price too low.   
      
   That's a typical representation of how capitalism works out.  It is   
   not at all like having a central authority allocate adequate means of   
   production for each family to be self-sufficient. Capitalism, while   
   preaching self-reliance as a virtue, differs from distributism in that   
   it gives no assurance that the majority will be capable of it. In   
   fact, the inherent tendency of unregulated capitalism is to drive the   
   majority to poverty and dependence.   
      
   http://www.ihr.org   http://nationalvanguard.org  http://www.bpp.org.uk   
      
   http://national-socialist-worldview.blogspot.com   
      
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