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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: longnshort who wrote (555393)3/16/2010 4:57:47 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1576446
 
"the first British settlers practiced agricultural socialism and, like socialism everywhere, it was an unmitigated disaster."

Of course, the drought, the malaria, the arrival too late to plant crops and the fact that the majority of the colonists were from an aristocratic background and knew nothing of farming played no role in what happened...
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