Whether Or Not It Is A Good Foundation Is A Matter Of Indoctrination And Morality.
Good foundation? Our ancestors committed massive atrocities against Indigenous peoples. Then there was the Royal Proclamation of 1763, reserving everything west of the Appalachian Mountains for Indigenous nations, which sent colonists into an uproar. Then came the Tea Act and the Townshend Acts, ostensibly to crack down on smuggling but really to raise revenue and assert parliamentary authority. The Somerset v. Stewart ruling freed a slave because chattel slavery was unsupported by English common law, sparking a planter backlash. The Gaspee Affair, the Grand Ohio Company grift, and the Stamp Act (opposed and heavily driven by the financial self-interest of wealthy elites, land speculators, and merchants who instigated mob violence partly to protect their own pockets) all followed. If any of this is a good foundation, then America was really founded by a lumpen criminal underclass and vagrant elements who sought money and power, and by scofflaw rich elites, a.k.a. the bourgeoisie and petite bourgeoisie, and its places of worship effectively installed the seven deadly sins and cardinal vices, al-sab' al-mubiqat, mitzvot lo ta'aseh, pancha mahapatakas, arishadvarga, anantarika-karma and trivisa, and shichi-gyaku as virtues, having left their homelands ostensibly because they were persecuted for holding to those very vices. This is visible in the strongly Social Darwinist, almost Spencerian policies the founders initially enacted, alongside confederalist and national-liberation-style laws. Before the Constitution, we had the Articles of Confederation. They wanted a semi-democratic version of oligarchic self-interest, but too many colonists wanted a synthesis of senatorial elitism and progressive conservatism instead. It's a shame few Americans look back at the decades leading up to the revolution to see what the morality and character of those pushing the agitprop against European governments and British rule were actually made of, or reflect on the psychology of that era and why America has always seemed to require a dark triad personality of anyone who wants to succeed under capitalism. Those who use dialectical materialism and historical psychology to look back at the foundational womb and placenta of America see a different nation at its birth. I wish I were qualified to diagnose America with a national personality disorder, but I'm not, so we all suffer as America's incentive structure of the period has only evolved to infect every culture and community within its borders. American nationalists and exceptionalists, like this guy, still support American imperialism and the values and virtues I said above. My loyalty is to humanity and the planet, and my allegiances are with the innocent and defenseless. So if anyone is going to tell me what I said was bad and try to shame or scold me, they would be shaming and scolding those loyalties and allegiances, proving my point, because to attack the point, one would have to use bad American doctrine and narrative to call me un-American. The loyalists and those with identity-protective cognition will tell on themselves, while simultaneously failing to engage the actual claims, instead resorting to the American exceptionalist narrative. Like it or not, America's foundations were shaped by many negative proto-philosophical, proto-psychological, and proto-ideological traditions; if you think America had a good foundation, it calls into question your character, because your sense of good and bad is unbecoming and we've come to a moral impasse, lowering the price of legal tea and making life more difficult for smugglers turned into taxation without representation, and the smugglers somehow became our champions, while taxes became more vile then organized crime. Accepting Hancock and others from his era's agitprop led to viewing Capone and Gotti as icons, and individual social financial responsibilities as theft in modern communities and among the societal population because we still accept the same propaganda that's on our TVs and social media, and in our homes, diners, and at work around our water coolers. Some of you are even constantly complaining about the empire falling or it's values and people getting replaced, while the rest of use are saying the fall is a net positive and the system and its mentality needs to be repealed and replaced. We have a fundamental difference in morality.
Remember these nine philosophical-ideological thoughts:
1. "An immediate consequence of man's estrangement from the product of his labour, his life activity, his species-being, is the estrangement of man from man."
- Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Estranged Labour
2. "The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorise, sing… the more you save."
- Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
3. "People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises."
- Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)
4. "Opportunism cannot now be completely triumphant in the working-class movement of one country for decades as it was in Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century; but in a number of countries it has grown ripe, overripe, and rotten, and has become completely merged with bourgeois policy in the form of 'social-chauvinism'."
- Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, Ch. VIII (1916)
5. "The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas: i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force."
- Marx and Engels, The German Ideology (1845)
6. "The state is a product and a manifestation of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms... it is, as a rule, the state of the most powerful, economically dominant class."
- Lenin, The State and Revolution, Ch. 1 (1917)
7. "All red races are born Socialists, and most tribes carry out the communistic ideas to the letter. Amongst the Iroquois, it is considered disgraceful to have food if your neighbor has none. To be a creditable member of the nation, you must divide your possessions with your less fortunate fellows. I find it much the same amongst the Coast Indians, though they are less bitter in their hatred of the extremes of wealth and poverty than are the Eastern tribes. Still, the very fact that they have preserved this legend, in which they liken avarice to a slimy sea-serpent, shows the trend of their ideas; shows, too, that an Indian is an Indian, no matter what his tribe, shows that he cannot, or will not, hoard money; shows that his native morals demand that the spirit of greed must be strangled at all costs." - Tekahionwake, The Sea-serpent (1911)
8. “For us, warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who can not provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity.”
- Chief Sitting Bull, attributed
9. "A strong people is not afraid of change, for they are the ones who initiate change themselves. They are not afraid to twist and turn on the wheel of life, for they know that change is the only way to survive." - Tekahionwake
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