The bluff from Muh Values Republicans is that nobody will ever actually dare to trace the core ideals of our nation back to George Washington, where their political philosophy is clearly rebuked and rejected anyway.

https://twitter.com/partisan_o/status/1685516441259245568

You can know that Jeffersonian newspaper propaganda wasn’t the wellspring of original American ideals because of chronology and the prefix in the name “Antifederalist” alone. It’s not rocket science.

Communism and Nationalism: Karl Marx versus Friedrich List (1991) by Roman Szporluk

#NowReading The Third British Empire by Alfred Zimmern

"…the larger League needed to maintain law and order throughout the world and to provide a secure basis for the economic interdependence which grew up, under the tutelage of British sea power, in the nineteenth century.”

Reading from the Bekenntnisschrift (Political Declaration) of Clausewitz

#NowReading Profits Without Production (1983) by Seymour Melman

Whatever the maneuvers for financial and market control that went on in the boardrooms of industrial capitalism, no one doubted that investing in and efficiently operating the means of production, especially those of basic industry, was the high road to wealth and fame.

Melman