Weren't the founding fathers almost communistic, originally America was almost like communes, shared trade

Question

no super wealthy and poor, don't believe they anticipated the super wealthy to use and bleed and use the poor so much in order to make a smaller percentage so wealthy

well you can have your personal freedoms, but tax the super wealthy, gaining their wealth from the labor of others

Ben spent much time in France : )

well coragryph don't think they anticipated the economic spread

Answer 1

Our founding fauthers did see the evils of the super wealthy. They were against centralized banks (Federal reserve), as well as against the evils of monopolies (walmart, microsoft, rupert murdoch, etc)

There was a time, when communities were COMMUNITIES... Helping one another. Coming together to raise walls & roofs of homes & buildings..

Look at every picture drawn about thanksgiving... You see a the town gathered together, sitting down, eating with each other. You dont see the wealthy tyrant eating good food at a seperate table from the common people.

Answer 2

Boy, this doesn't sound like anything I've read about. From the earliest, most American colonies were designed to earn profits to ship back to England. They generally didn't have much success at first, but eventually business thrived. In fact, early visitors to the colonies often commented on how focused Americans at all levels were on making money. Some of the founding fathers were quite wealthy, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John Hancock and Sam Adams.

Answer 3

Except that they were all landed gentry with slaves, and appointments to the Court of St. James, and all that kind of thing, pulling them toward elitism. Now the elite isn't bad -- it means "the best" -- but "elitism", as in "I am better than you", very quickly becomes the problem once one guy has more money and position and prestige than the other. It's inevitable. The thing I hold against the founding fathers is really just this: the electoral college was set up to keep power out of the hands of the mythic "We the people" and in the hands of the landed gentry. It's been an election wrecker ever since, if real Democracy tickles your fancy, and not an elitocracy.

Answer 4

no not really

they were opportunists, pioneers, people persecuted in europe, but you have to realize that the leaders were the wealthy.

at the continental congress anouncing secession john hancock stepped forward and said, "I am the commanding officer of the army."

John Adams stepped forward and said, "No. George Washington is the commander of the army."

John Hancock was one of the most significant founding fathers and he was a smuggler, profiteering on some of the items England had laid 13 taxes on in the 13 years following the French Indian war, so no, although there were communistic tendencies as there are in ALL communities, the early colonies were led by opportunists and pioneers. dont forget that the land was taken away from the people who were already here. those people were more communal and sharing in trade. it's all relative. everyone is capitalistic AND communal depending on how they benefit.

Answer 5

No they were believers in free markets. Communists believe that the state should mandate the economy. State interference in the individual's pursuit of happiness was a no no to the founding fathers who were also some of the best smugglers the world has ever known.

Answer 6

Ummm...okay, except that most of the original settlements had that "if you don't work, you starve" clause - and then lost 50% of their populations in winters.

And many of the Founding Fathers WERE super rich for their day. And they DIDN'T use the poor? So those SLAVES were well compensated?

No, the Founding Fathers were freemarket capitalists, IF that term existed back then.

Answer 7

Communism requires community (govt) ownership of all property.

Given that the founders put individual (private) property rights ins several places in the constitution -- including the Takings clause which prohibits the govt from taking private property without compensation -- there is no indication that they believed in community property ownership.

Answer 8

Quick! Call your local grade school and get a copy of the fifth grade social studies book. You obviously missed that class.

Answer 9

No, nothing like commies, though the communist ideal of revolution may have been in part inspired by the success of the American and French revolutions.

Answer 10

Huh? I think you're getting your information from some very questionable sources.