Happy 1/4 - Now we need a 1/5

By សតិវ អតុ
The most important thing about the US revolution was that it served as a turning point from Feudalism to capitalism, one of the shifts that Karl Marx believed was important in his stages of human economic and political development, from Feudalism to Capitalism, from Capitalism to Socialism, from Socialism to Communism.

The Republicans (anti-aristocrats at that time) included both Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson. They differed from Hamilton and his Federalists who wanted to create some kind of aristocracy or professional politicians here in the US. In his later writings, Paine condemned the Federalists for trying to reverse the US revolution and what it stood for.

The most important thing about the US revolution was that it served as a turning point from Feudalism to capitalism, one of the shifts that Karl Marx believed was important in his stages of human economic and political development, from Feudalism to Capitalism, from Capitalism to Socialism, from Socialism to Communism.

The Republicans (anti-aristocrats at that time) included both Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson. They differed from Hamilton and his Federalists who wanted to create some kind of aristocracy or professional politicians here in the US. In his later writings, Paine condemned the Federalists for trying to reverse the US revolution and what it stood for.

He went to France to take part in the French Revolution, for which he wrote “The Rights of Man.” He fell out of favor of France’s first dictator, Maximilien Robespierre.


He condemned Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'état, overthrowing the Directory, calling him "the completest charlatan that ever existed."[

Paine remained in France until 1802, when he returned to America on an invitation from Thomas Jefferson, who had been elected president.

Now fast forward almost 230 years and we have only a skeleton of the original revolution. We condemned the Sandinista revolution against a dictator, we support Saudi Arabia, one of the most complete feudal societies on earth, and we are now attempting to be the next Roman empire, controlling all of the Middle-East and as the news reported yesterday, destroying all revolutionary or progressive movements in the Southern American Hemisphere.

Today we have president, barely elected by the people, who has instituted torture, concentration camps and imperialist ambitions on a grand scale. WE need Tom Paine today. Empires and dictatorship are not what this country was supposed to be about. It’s time for the next move, from Capitalism to Socialism.