In America… the reality behind the words of the Declaration of Independence (issued in the same year as Adam Smith’s capitalist manifesto, The Wealth of Nations) was that a rising class of important people needed to enlist on their side enough Americans to defeat England, without disturbing too much the relations of wealth and power that had developed over 150 years of colonial history. Indeed, 69 percent of the signers of the Declaration of Independence had held colonial office under England. -- Zinn John Adams, by the way, had served as the defense lawyer of the British soldiers responsible for the Boston Massacre which had killed Crispus Attucks just six years prior. leftcheek.wordpress/2013/07/04/those-tricky-bastard-founding-fathers/
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 14:02:51 +0000
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