re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Howard Zinn (A People’s History of the United States) makes the case that the American Revolution was not so much a popular uprising against authority as a case of the local elites throwing off the foreign elites, using the assets seized to consolidate power and replacing those that they had overthrown.

But he must hate America so we will ignore him.

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Good argument actually and probably why they were able to pull a non utterly tyranical government out of it unlike the much less (wealthy/educated/sophisticated/whatever) French were able to do a short while later. They didn’t make everyone free but in order to preserve their freedom they did build a system that could eventually free others. That’s one of the legacies of the English Civil War in our own two revolutions.