The left side of our political spectrum in Texas often talk of “improving” the state of Texas and the entire country with the introducing Universal Healthcare, expanded welfare, and it taking a village to raise “our” children.
Victor Prosper Considérant started the most famous of the Socialist colonies in Texas and based it on the philosophy of François Marie Charles Fourier. Starting with 2,000 europeans signing up for their French utopian society, the reality of having to actually work kicked in and dropped the number down to about 200 people that would actually migrate. A funny thing about Socialist is that they tend to be artists, musicians and other creative people who knew little about farming or producing the products that are essential for life. They all wanted to share equally in the profit (based on a formula enacted by Considérant), but did not want or understand how to share equally in the production. This could be why the French immigrants attempted to develop a vineyard (source of alcoholic beverages) in the "chalk hills" when The Peter’s Colony 30 miles north of them had the best farm land in the region. They also faced a harsh winter and summer droughts.
La Reunion was abandoned in only eighteen months and many of the colonists moved to Dallas. With the heavy Democrat control that has been maintained over the decades, one can say that the Socialist won once the figured out that they could only survive on the backs of the capitalist banking industry that made Dallas prosperous.
To view the remains of this Socialist paradise, you will need to look at the dirt surrounding the Reunion Arena and Reunion Tower in Dallas. Like everything else started by the Socialist, names on a few buildings (built, financed, and owned by capitalist), historical markers, broken ruins and dirt are all that remain.
Did today’s Democrats forget that Socialism was tried in Texas or do they hope that we have forgotten so that those who can’t produce can rule over those that can? Could it also be that the failures of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Communist Russia), National Socialist German Workers' Party (1940’s Nazi Party), and other variations of Socialism have been erased from their revisionist views of world history.
Then again, maybe it was pre-industrial age Global Warming that killed La Reunion and the other Socialist colonies of Texas.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/LL/uel1.html
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~jwheat/reunionart.html
http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/tx/lareunion.html
http://www.dallashistory.org/history/dallas/topics.htm#la_reunion
http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-9598/Considerant-detail-of-an-engraving-by-A-Lacauchie-and-J
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