The shot heard round the world

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Parliament responded to that upheaval by repealing the tax but asserting in the Declaratory Act that it maintained exclusive power to impose taxes on the colonies, even if they were not directly represented in the House of Commons.
45% : In the manner of the old monarchies, it is a ruling class, with Trump at its head, that demands to be approached on bended knee.
44% : If King George III and parliament made concessions to the colonists over taxation, did this not undermine their sovereignty in all other respects?
44% : Whatever steps it does take to "remember," it will certainly seek to "forget" the genuine history of the revolution -- preferring the mythological right-wing patriotic interpretation favored by Trump or that myth's demonic inversion advanced by the New York Times 1619 Project.
44% : Related works available from Mehring Books: David North, Equality, the Rights of Man and the Birth of Socialism Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Read moreSocialism, history and the defense of democratic rights23 August 2024Contact usRelated TopicsFind out more about these topics:HistoryThe American Revolution
42% : In a formal political sense, the dispute was characterized by a legalistic debate over taxation and representation.
29% : While Trump supports a war of genocide in the Middle East and prepares for world war with China, and while he wages a trade war on the whole planet reminiscent of the violent commercial wars and out-and-out piracy of the great mercantile empires of the 18th century, the current occupant of the White House is trampling over all the most fundamental rights laid out in America's founding documents: the police abduction of people, including lawful residents, without trial and their deportation to prison camps in other countries; his repeated threat to do the same to American citizens; his monarchical assertion that whatever he himself claims is in the interest of national security is ipso facto lawful; his threat to suspend the Constitution altogether through the invocation of the Insurrection Act.
28% : Figures prone to compromise, such as the conservative John Dickinson of Delaware, whose Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer had articulated the American position on taxation and representation, were living political lives on borrowed time.
21% : Workers must be alert to the extreme danger posed by Trump and his cronies.

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