celebrate the American Revolution?

Until recently the 4th of July was a wimp holiday. Not that the meaning behind it was all wrong. The US was one of the first colonial states to break with feudalism and embrace the new economic system of capitalism. As every Marxist knows the stages of development are from primitivism to feudalism to capitalism to socialism to communism. That was the five stages of Marx’s view of economic development. Yes the US is long overdue for socialism, but in 1776 at least two founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson and Tom Pain were considered “republicans.” They were of the few founding fathers that opposed developing a new American aristocracy. To some extent we got our aristocracy, but Jefferson and pain were ahead of their time.
Pain even went over to support the French Revolution, which was a clear cut from feudalism. Jefferson never stopped in his support of the French Revolution.

So today some of us still celebrate the end of feudalism by supporting the 4th of July revolution. A lot’s gone wrong in 200 years, but for a short time, it got done right. It was never an Afro-American revolution or one for the Native American Indians, but it was a change that rippled through Europe and eventually through the American hemisphere. In some ways the revolution still goes on today, in places such as Cuba and Venezuela. There’s more to be done, but why not take out the time to set off the most illegal fireworks we can get our hands on.
It’s the least we can do for our real forefathers and not the rehashed Hamilton style attempts rebuilding an American aristocracy.