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I think that as a country we need to understand that if you take the Declaration at face value it is a lie. All men created equal never meant all men.

Now we have the ability to aspire to make it true, but the authors of the 1776 report don’t want to do this. They want to ignore it and pretend it is already true because they benefit from the exploitation of others. The 1776 report censors our history, leaving only half truths, outright lies, and propaganda.

yaddas 11mo ago

i agree with you that there was vast inequalities, but the point of 1776 wasnt to opress more people but to reform & create more free laborers that could contribute to the stock of existing things. capitalism as an oppressive force didnt truly become a prevailing tendency until the industrial revolution & boarder labor movement, bourgeois society was revolutionary when the artisenal, guildsmen, & indentured servants were becoming & getting afforded the same rights as englishmen, but the industrial revolution, king cotton, & the like caused the intensification of exploitation of slaves

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Yog Krakthulhu 11mo ago

The point might of not been to oppress more people, but it did continue to oppress the people they had in slavery, many generations of them in fact. Many people fought to keep that intact before and after 1776.

Oh I brought up the capital essay as

something I disagreed with. Though you can argue since capitalism requires exploitation to function that becoming a “oppressive force” was inevitable.

yaddas 11mo ago

what are you politically?