THE REVOLUTION WITHIN THE REVOLUTION

Subject: Re: THE REVOLUTION WITHIN THE REVOLUTION

..."offers good reasons for why young Cubans
should assure the continuity of the revolution." 

A reminder that revolution must be an ongoing process.  We tend to think of the American Revolution as an event that occurred back in 1776.  Once we had thrown off the oppressive yoke of the British Empire, the revolution was complete.  Not so, the American Revolution continued to evolve and reinvent itself until it became what it is today. 

We Working Class Americans have been deceived into believing that the American Revolution included all people living in the Colonies.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Most people were not included.  The Revolution was fought to free the Landed Gentry from the oppressive taxes of the British Empire.  The majority of Colonists provided the fighting men, but did not see much difference when the smoke cleared and the British armies sailed back to Jolly Old England. 

And the Revolution continued successfully, year after year.  The Landed Gentry and the wealthy merchants, free from the King's boot heel, expanded and flourished and became fierce competitors, eventually overtaking and surpassing the Empire upon whom the sun never set.  Today the Revolution has expanded its power to the Four Corners of the World.  It is no longer confined to America, but it is still the ever changing American Revolution.  It is now a World Empire overshadowing every Empire that went before it. 

Hats off to that Great American Revolution!  It is a great success story.  But it is not our story.  Not the story of the Working Class.  We have been used to fight the Empire's fights, to till their fields, to work their factories, to sing their songs or victory.  But it is not our Land of the Free and the Brave.  It is the property of the Great American Empire. 

The Working Class has yet to have our American revolution. 

 

Curious Carl