Private property was the solution to their failed experiment. But people keep repeating the Pilgrims’ mistakes.
The Pilgrims had run into the “tragedy of the commons.” No individual Pilgrim owned crops they grew, so no individual had much incentive to work.
Bradford’s solution: private property.
https://reason.com/2022/11/23/the-pilgrims-dreamed-of-socialism-then-socialism-almost-killed-them/