Vladimir Lenin wrote in his Letter to American Workers that “The history of modern, civilized America opened with one of those great, really liberating, really revolutionary wars of which there have been so few.” It is unfortunate that socialists now disdain American history, because there is a socialist experiment to be found early on that they can learn from. It is even connected to a group of people every American knows about: the Pilgrims.
William Bradford, who was one of the Mayflower’s passengers and one of Plymouth’s original governors, wrote a history of their endeavors originally titled Of Plymouth Plantation. Arriving in the New World, the Pilgrim leadership chose to begin an experiment in communal living. They abolished private property and replaced it with the utopian socialist model. Read here Bradford’s eyewitness account of its result:
