Thank you so much for writing this Peter. Such great historical info and arguments. I especially appreciate your analysis of land and slavery in the "revolution." I have heard a few interviews with Rebecca Nagle about land and the extermination of indigenous peoples as an overlooked motivation for the "revolution," complete with a slur about "merciless savages" in the Declaration. I have started listening to her new podcast, First America, and recommend it.
Yeah thanks. Especially appreciate the clear eyed view of how the white supremacist roots of the US also raised principles that can be driven by movements from below, of working class and oppressed peoples, to eradicate those poisonous roots and move history towards freedom. Dialectical and clear for all of us who need a break from and an antidote to the retrograde fascism of the New Confederacy. Somehow I got on the mailing list of the reactionary and childish Hillsdale College. Their current issue has a pompous and empty piece of gibberish dressed up as scholarship called "How to Think About the American Revolution", which treats our history as both pure and static -- which of course it is neither, especially not pure.
Thank you so much for writing this Peter. Such great historical info and arguments. I especially appreciate your analysis of land and slavery in the "revolution." I have heard a few interviews with Rebecca Nagle about land and the extermination of indigenous peoples as an overlooked motivation for the "revolution," complete with a slur about "merciless savages" in the Declaration. I have started listening to her new podcast, First America, and recommend it.
"Founding Fathers or Deadbeat Dads?" BRILLIANT. Thank you for your assessment and its grounding in specific aspects of history.
I also just shared a piece about my reflections on the US and the upcoming 4th - would love if you checked it out. https://m0r94n.substack.com/p/americana?r=1fkxj7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
Yeah thanks. Especially appreciate the clear eyed view of how the white supremacist roots of the US also raised principles that can be driven by movements from below, of working class and oppressed peoples, to eradicate those poisonous roots and move history towards freedom. Dialectical and clear for all of us who need a break from and an antidote to the retrograde fascism of the New Confederacy. Somehow I got on the mailing list of the reactionary and childish Hillsdale College. Their current issue has a pompous and empty piece of gibberish dressed up as scholarship called "How to Think About the American Revolution", which treats our history as both pure and static -- which of course it is neither, especially not pure.
First rate Peter and so clearly written. Seconding Tami's comments
Thank you for this article - I needed this especially now - a reminder (and an educational) as I prepare for the decadence of the 250 celebrations