Showing posts with label socialism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label socialism. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

the Puritans and the capitalist merchant.

The Puritans didn't take to kindly to capitalism. I love them for that.
the following comes from Puritan John Winthrop.

1.     At a general court holden at Boston, great complaint was made of the oppression used in the country in sale of foreign commodities; and Mr. Robert Keaine, who kept a shop in Boston, was notoriously above others observed and complained of, and, being convented, he was charged with many particulars; in some,