- 08 Aug 2010 19:19
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I'm sorry, this thread is ridiculous. Maybe I'm really thick, w/e, or maybe you guys are just slowly stroking your polisci degrees.
Agricultural socialism was the norm in pre civil war America among the Quaker communities and still is among the Mennonites and Amish. In fact, Agricultural socialism was even more or less the norm in Feudal Europe and all agricultural communities beginning with agriculture itself. Sure there were problems with it - or lets say, with calling it that when serfs wound up paying a lord to not destroy them. But the fact is small agricultural communities are naturally socialist cooperatives with a basically nominal headman. This applies east and west. The Kibbutz movement is probably the best attested non-traditional/deliberate attempt.
Agricultural socialism was the norm in pre civil war America among the Quaker communities and still is among the Mennonites and Amish. In fact, Agricultural socialism was even more or less the norm in Feudal Europe and all agricultural communities beginning with agriculture itself. Sure there were problems with it - or lets say, with calling it that when serfs wound up paying a lord to not destroy them. But the fact is small agricultural communities are naturally socialist cooperatives with a basically nominal headman. This applies east and west. The Kibbutz movement is probably the best attested non-traditional/deliberate attempt.
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Wild geese flying over a lake don't intend to cast a reflection
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Wild geese flying over a lake don't intend to cast a reflection
and the water has no mind to retain their image