• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Ahh yes the merchant revolution of the US, in which rich white men got mad about paying taxes and the whispers of slave abolition in England and revolted.

    It wasn’t the people’s war, it was the merchants war.

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      6 months ago

      Had nothing to do with suspending the right to trial by jury, forced deportations, suspending peaceful assembly, demanding quartering troops, cutting off trade routes…

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      6 months ago

      Similar thing with the French revolution, it’s the bourgeoisie who found nobility privileges unfair that led most of it.