Thanksgiving, a Celebration of the Success of Capitalism

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"Did you know that the first [Plymouth Colony Pilgrim's] Thanksgiving was a celebration of the triumph of private property and individual initiative?
William Bradford was the governor of the original Pilgrim colony, founded at Plymouth in 1621.
The colony was first organized on a communal basis, as their financiers required.
Land was owned in common.
The Pilgrims farmed communally, too, following the "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" precept.
The results were disastrous. 
Communism didn't work any better 400 years ago than it does today.
By 1623, the colony had suffered serious losses. Starvation was imminent.
Bradford realized that the communal system encouraged and rewarded waste and laziness and inefficiency, and destroyed individual initiative.
Desperate, he abolished it.
He distributed private plots of land among the surviving Pilgrims,
encouraging them to plant early and farm as individuals, not collectively.
The results: a bountiful early harvest that saved the colonies.
After the harvest, the
Pilgrims celebrated with a day of Thanksgiving -- on August 9th."