Wait a minute, you're telling me America was founded by the same syphilitic capitalists who ruined England??This week the boys dust off some Foner to take a look at the role of labor in the founding of these here United States. Was the War of Independence a fully bourgeois revolution? Or did labor power and class struggle have something to do with it? Methinks they did.Reading: Chapters 1-3 of "History of the Labor Movement of the United States" (1947) by Philip S Foner.