AOC is wrong. The American Revolution wasn’t against the wealthy
President Ronald Reagan had Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) number years before she was born. In his famed 1964 speech at the Republican National Convention, Reagan quipped: “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
TL;DR
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed the American Revolution was against the "billionaires of their time."
- Historical figures like John Hancock and Robert Morris, who were among the wealthiest, supported and financed the revolution.
- Robert Morris was known as the "Financier of the Revolution" and used his resources to fund the colonial war effort.
- Unlike other revolutions motivated by class resentment, the American Revolution succeeded in part by not overthrowing the wealthy.
- The article argues Ocasio-Cortez's perspective is inaccurate and indicative of a neo-Marxist lens applied to history.