United States of America

[tradeunionsupporter]

Was the United States of America founded on Capitalism and by Capitalists ?

[Die Rote Fahne]

Was the United States of America founded on Capitalism and by Capitalists ?

Yes.

[Skooma Addict]

I am beginning to think you are some kind of spy.

[Zav]

Was the United States of America founded on Capitalism and by Capitalists ?
Yes, though modern Capitalism hadn't been created yet, the system and the people of the the time could certainly be called such.

[Dumb]

Capitalism hadn't yet taken root. The bourgeoisie were already around for sure, however, and they were the class that led the American Revolution. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson - the whole lot was composed of wealthy merchants and land-owners.

Think about it this way: as originally written, the Constitution only granted you the write to vote if you were a landowner with such-and-such amount of property. The bourgeois Founding Fathers made it unconstitutional at first for the poor to vote!

[Revolution starts with U]

It never ceases to amaze me how idiots think the "freedoms and benefits" we have today had existed from the start, and therefore capitalism did it. They did not! They were only won through constant struggle by socialists and other leftists... you know, those evil tyrants.

[Delenda Carthago]

Not all parts of the US economy were capitalist. And this is what lead to the Civil War. The South wanted the feudalist ways to continue, the Yanks wabted pure capitalism. And this is why the win of theirs was a good thing.

[Nolan]

It was capitalism in a nascent form, and the old landowning class still existed. Capitalism was more developed elsewhere, like the Netherlands.

That type of system survived in the south until the civil war, and was getting more entrenched because slave owners were the ruling class of the south/confederacy as opposed to a strong bourgeoisie as in the north. The US for much of its history actually had two ruling classes and the structure of the legislature reflected that.

[Arilou Lalee'lay]

Was the United States of America founded on Capitalism and by Capitalists ?

You obviously didn't take my advice and start reading more before asking such questions. That's ok, the education system in most capitalist countries is extremely effective in discouraging autodidacticism. So I'll repeat: our answers to such questions will not be useful to you until you make a serious effort to figure out the basics for yourself. This is the last reply in which I will assume good faith, however.

[Tablo]

During the Revolutionary War the economic systems of slavery, feudalism, and capitalism all existed. The world was pretty much ruled by governments to the benefit of the feudal elite up until the Revolutionary War, which was the beginning of bourgeois dictatorship and the beginning of the end for feudalism. There can be more than one economic system in play at the same time if you are defining them based on labor relations.