250th Anniversary of American Independence and the Historically Progressive Bourgeois Revolution
“The history of modern, civilised America opened with one of those great, really liberating, really revolutionary wars of which there have been so few compared to the vast number of wars of conquest which, like the present imperialist war, were caused by squabbles among kings, landowners or capitalists over the division of usurped lands or ill-gotten gains. That was the war the American people waged against the British robbers who oppressed America and held her in colonial slavery…”
-V.I. Lenin, 1918, Letter to American Workers
The American Revolution stands tall in its place in history, for it was the spark that led to a wave of revolutionary fire across Europe and an inspiration across the world to all the revolutionaries who fought for freedom from the tyranny of monarchism and feudalism. The American Revolution sits as the bedrock on which the international bourgeois revolution was built on. While the Revolution of 1776 was extremely historically progressive, we should know that the result of the International Bourgeois Revolution was not, indeed, the complete freedom of man against oppression and tyranny, as the new United States limited that freedom to only the white bourgeois class, excluding all others from having any say in governance, and keeping 20% of the population, including those who fought against the British, kept in the chains and inhumanity of slavery. The new nation would soon wreak havoc across the indigenous peoples of the continent, blazing west and slaughtering the natives. Racial Segregation existed legally in America until 1964, and many cities and towns are still essentially segregated due to the impoverishment faced by the Black population. Poverty is not foreign to American soil, as many Americans still go hungry, and many more don’t have access to healthcare, all while working themselves to death for pennies while the richest American is now a literal trillionaire! The Bourgeois Revolution did not reach the lofty ideals of Enlightenment thinkers, it instead gave us the Bourgeois Society, entirely built on capitalism. But without capitalism’s creation, we know that there would be no proletariat, and communism would be an impossibility. For Capitalism is a revolutionary force itself, constantly evolving and bringing about the conditions for the Working Class’ revolution.
For those today, we should look back at these men of old and take after them and their revolutionary spirit. For the actual battle for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness will only be won on the day that the international proletariat triumphs over capital and class itself! As many celebrate today the revolution that gained America its independence from Britain, we should look forward to and prepare for the revolution that gains humanity its independence from capitalist wage slavery and from class itself. As the Bourgeoisie’s emergence brought about the creation of the working proletariat and freedom from the regime of the nobility, aristocracy, and monarchy, the Proletarian revolution will bring with it the abolition of class itself, and bring freedom to all from the chains of capitalist oppression!
Pictured in order are:
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Louis Cook aka Akiatonharónkwen
Marquis de Lafayette
James Armistead Lafayette
Benjamin Franklin
Peter Salem
James Madison
Thomas Paine