when they first settled in plymouth they were told share everything share the work and the harvest. the contract says it was to be common. settlers were to receive the necessary arias. there was to be no individual property. the labor was to be organized by the different cape abilities of the settlers. sounds like karls marks to each according to his ant and each according to his needs. that sounds fair. they nearly starved. it is a tragedy of the common. when people can get the same stuff by, woulding less they will. plymouth settlers face illness. the harvest was meager for two years there was famine. they dropped it. every man for his own particulars assigned a parcel of land. the results were dramatic. it made all hands very