Originally Posted by Guest

It didn't work for our earliest form of socialism, the Mayflower Compact, or in Jamestown in the 1600's.

"The aphorism is found in the Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle (with Silvanus and Timothy) to the Thessalonians, in which Paul writes:

εἴ τις οὐ θέλει ἐργάζεσθαι μηδὲ ἐσθιέτω

that is,

If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat"

Of course, then you have the socialist view:

"Leon Trotsky wrote that: "The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced with a new one: who does not obey shall not eat." (this is probably more on the level of Bernie Sanders view too)