• reddit_sux@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Though the ideas espoused for the revolution might be grand, the cause and motivation behind those who joined the revolution was purely monetary.

    • Rich didn’t like being taxed so they made their slaves join the army.
    • George Washington didn’t like the fact that the British having lost the French Indian war made a pact with the Indians which stopped his business of prospecting.

    The American revolution was a war of businessmen against the government in England. The government was and is the same; in the past only rich, land owning white men could vote or form government. Now it is the corporations or rich white men.

      • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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        1 hour ago

        There have been a few that weren’t violent, too. Portugal, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine getting rid of their Russian-installed quisling, South Korea.