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apparently, aocia claimed american war of independence was against rich people
*found it https://nitter.net/MarcoFoster_/status/2053273753401143399
AOC: “America was founded in revolt of British aristocracy. The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time. It’s actually the most American thing in the world for us to be fighting for the working class. It’s actually patently un-American to transform our country into a place of kings and landed gentry”
It was started as a working-class uprising in 1775, with riots in many cities. The Continental Congress was formed by the bourgeoisie to co-opt the revolutionary fervor.
Shays rebellion might be cast in that light, but independence war was kinda bougie/landed gentry from the jump, no?
Like land speculation was rampant for all the involved *(and there was a lot of fomenting involved)
Leopold Trebitch is a good source on this, I caught one of his book tours.
As soon as the frontier "closed", the social pressures started to creep back in. It makes sense that after more than a century of colonial development, a population of free Africans, "later" immigrants in cities, and others that could not secure land came to constitute a minority underclass that had the ability to pull off minor revolts.