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I’ve often heard from political conservatives that early settlers at Jamestown & Plymouth nearly starved to death because they initially attempted “socialism”/collective farming, & that they only survived because they began using “capitalism” & privatized farmland. Is this in anyway true?

by /u/Damned-scoundrel in /r/AskHistorians

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