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I’m Bub Kuns, and today we’re talking about socialism.
Did you know that long before Karl Marx, the Pilgrims had a failed experiment with socialism?
When the Pilgrims first arrived in America, Governor Bradford arranged for them to have a communal farm. Everyone would share the harvest of crops equally, no matter how much each person helped — or didn’t. CLASSIC SOCIALISM!
This, of course, removed incentive for the Pilgrims to work, so many did not. Realizing there would be a scant harvest, Bradford changed course and gave each settler HIS OWN piece of land to farm, allowing each to keep what he grew. With this incentive, the Pilgrims began working hard, and when harvest eventually came, the new colony’s crops were abundant.
Believers today should learn from the Pilgrims’ failed experiment with socialism, seeing the value of incentive for achieving God-given potential.
And how else should Christians respond to socialism? We’ll discuss that another time.
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