Today in my U.S. history class we had to read 3 articles about the origin of Thanksgiving, and then write an essay comparing/contrasting them
But the real interest here is one of the articles. The first two generally followed the widely-accepted story of Thanksgiving: Pilgrims are starving, Native Americans show them some survival skills, and then everyone's so happy that a goddamn holiday is made.
The third one, however, was extremely far from the widely-accepted story. It basically claimed that there was no such Native American influence on the pilgrims' survival and that the starving was due to the pilgrims using a socialist economy at first, but everyone was greedy so they didn't want to contribute to the community stockpile. Then it says that they switched to a Capitalist, free-market system and suddenly everyone was thriving. Then it states that Free Markets are the "only source of abundance" and Thanksgiving is about us giving thanks to God for the country having free markets.
I looked up the article online,
so you can read it here.
TL;DR:
Some guy wrote an article that everything we know about thanksgiving is a lie and it's actually a celebration of capitalism.
Discuss.
