Puritan Communism
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Mar 22, 2025
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Puritan Communism
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The whole idea that Puritans created “the capitalism mindset” is false— Puritans subordinated individual economic concerns & calculation to the public good— no you are not allowed to sell above the just-price, your private losses will not be born by the commons
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“from the very beginning, Puritans had strong moralistic doubts about participation in capital markets, and were prone to scold and eventually excommunicate merchants who used state of the art financial instruments and tended strongly towards price controls in the civil and moral spheres.”
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