Thanksgiving in the American mind is inextricably associated with the Plymouth Plantation and the Mayflower colonists. It is good to remember the colony began as a socialist experiment and, when the collectivism failed, reverted to private property which then succeeded.
Power Line has reprinted an excellent column by a historian of note who describes this series of events. I recommend it to you on this day of giving thanks for our many blessings, one of which certainly is that we took that early lesson to heart.
