Not to turn socdem and defend western empire but moving beyond the big names were there any American revolutionaries that were okay? Like I don't know much about Washington besides the fact that he required that his precious tea sets accompany him to the war theatre, which I guess is as charming as it is probably suspect.
I mean they palled around with rapist slaveowners if they weren't ones themselves. On the other hand they did sign off on Jefferson (see previous sentence) changing Locke's very suspect libertarian line "life, liberty, and pursuit of property" into the obviously much better "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." So did a couple good ones sneak through? If we are always going to acktually Adam Smith's capitalist tendencies I don't see why there isn't room for critical support for...I don't know, let's say Franklin?
Concervatives will never get over Cuban Revolutionaries being cool
Sometimes I think their reasoning is something along the line of "our heroes were total pieces of shit so therefore your heroes has to be as well".
Not to turn socdem and defend western empire but moving beyond the big names were there any American revolutionaries that were okay? Like I don't know much about Washington besides the fact that he required that his precious tea sets accompany him to the war theatre, which I guess is as charming as it is probably suspect.
I mean they palled around with rapist slaveowners if they weren't ones themselves. On the other hand they did sign off on Jefferson (see previous sentence) changing Locke's very suspect libertarian line "life, liberty, and pursuit of property" into the obviously much better "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." So did a couple good ones sneak through? If we are always going to acktually Adam Smith's capitalist tendencies I don't see why there isn't room for critical support for...I don't know, let's say Franklin?