<< Of the 3 great revolutions in modern history: the
>French, the Chinese
>and the Russian,
I've seen this written before. Why is the Am
Revolution not considered 'great' on the same order by
some folks? This doesn't seem to be true for all,
since I've seen some include the Am
Revolution?
>>
A standard sort of Marxist answer is that the American revolution" wasn't a revolution in the Marxist sense, i.e., one that changed the mode of production for a different one and put a new ruyling class in power. One view is that the Civil War was the nearest America has had to a revolution because it got rid of solavery in the South. Barrington Moore, no Marxist but strongly influenced by MArx, spells out a story to this effect in Lord & Peasant in the Modsern World. (Or am I giving the subtitle)?
--jks