Thomas Paine, one of America’s Founding Fathers and much quoted by “patriots”, was in favor of -gasp- socialism!

Separate an individual from society, and give him an island or a continent to possess, and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end, in all cases, that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man’s own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came.

In Agrarian Justice Paine systematically lays out financial means of caring for “three classes of wretchedness. The blind, the lame, and the aged poor;” in terms that would make any modern Democratic or Republican politician’s head explode. The numbers aren’t relevant today, but the sentiment – that the Earth is the shared treasury of all who live upon it, and those who enjoy private ownership of any part of it should be taxed to support those who do not – comes through loud and clear. Reminds me of Dick Gaughan’s “World Turned Upside Down” and the readable parts of Marx.
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It’s weird to see today’s politicians, nearly mummified in the flags they’ve wrapped about themselves, spouting nonsense that the likes of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Thomas Paine might have lynched them for. Their claims that Social Security and taxation of assets (as opposed to taxation of income) are unamerican are such barefaced lies that you have to wonder about the sanity of these people. And if you look up what the first Americans thought about corporations, you’ll have to assume that one hundred percent of today’s congress would have fought for the British (well, for the East India Company, really) in the American Revolution.

Thanks to Kent for his gift of Common Sense, which I enjoyed, and got me started on reading Paine.