Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Have You Even Read Locke?" video.

  1. Something similar occurred in the past when Robert Owen came to the US. He failed spectacularly.
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  2. It was born out of Christianity, going all the way back to ideas floating around Bohemia, and the last of the Crusades. That was pre-Luther, by the way. Out of that came several communal Christian sects across Europe, which also came to the US. They had also obtained ideas from the Dominicans, with their communal living, where the church owned everything. One can trace the first stirrings of what became communism to that, and when the commons were enclosed in England, which led to the protests, and Thomas More's book, Utopia. This, then, leads on to the Quakers and the Diggers. These ideas were behind Robert Owen's New Lanark Mill, and what Friedrich Engels believed in. Last, Owen's legacy led to the mining industry using company housing, company stores, and scrip instead of currency. The very thing the early unions worked so hard to bust up.
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