(November 1, 2015 at 10:04 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The American Revolution substituted one propertied aristocracy for another. Yes, I do think Washington sought military glory and was shocked out of his mind when he finally got to see his "army." He worked long and hard to get them into shape and still if not for French assistance would have failed.
Oddly, or perhaps not, the argument used by the Founding Fathers to get the commons to fight was basically the same as that used 80+ years later by another propertied aristocracy in the Confederacy to get them to risk their lives to benefit the slave owner class. Humans always seem to fall for that shit.
How do you think that the new aristocracy formed? Was its location in America more important, given natural resources and the ability of the colonists to gain more money in that place or at that time, or was the intellectual formation of the revolutionary ideal the paramount factor?
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