Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Domination

What if the American Revolution called for the liberation of humanity, wherever it was deemed to be enslaved, akin to the call of arms which Marx made with Communism. Consequently the American Revolution turns into one of domination akin to how the USSR & the spread of communism is viewed these days...

Discuss.
 
The erasure of all monarchy and replacement of it with global liberty and republic?
Intriguing.

The thing that makes it not too impossible is the fact that, America was founded on the principle of the Enlightenment, and solely on that. It wasn't a territorial dream of nationalism based on an ancient foothold for a certain ethnic group. It was founded a new kind of country. Due to this, I could see some change in ideals which leads to "Manifest Destiny" expanding to a "Spreading the Republic across the world" and such things.

It'd require significant changes, though, in early US foreign policy. The first step might be in agitating for all of the Americas becoming independent, so that when the Spanish colonies break free, they seriously contemplate becoming part of the USA, and the country becomes the "United States of the Americas".
That kind of thing would be the first step towards a global Enlightened Republic led on American classical-liberal ideals.
 
Is it not pretty much what happened in OTL?

The whole liberalist movement, with the major uprisings in Europe shortly after, not to mention the french revolution...
 

NapoleonXIV

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You're having the American Revolution be the French. The problem is where's your mob and where's your ancien regime? The American Revolution was a top down movement and it was basically conservative. The colonists were trying to hold onto the self-government and autonomy they had evolved and the British wanted to take back. This form of government was very Enlightenment based, that's true, but that wasn't anything new, not in America.

I believe that Thomas Paine and his followers espoused your idea, if perhaps there had been no Washington and Paine took his place....
 
And the American People aren't considered a "mob"... how interesting considering the fears of some of the Founding Fathers... yet they've got their own Lady of Liberty leading them on to whatever it is... ;)
 
Is it not pretty much what happened in OTL?

The whole liberalist movement, with the major uprisings in Europe shortly after, not to mention the french revolution...

In short, no. The French Revolution was unrelated to the American Revolution, though it was inspired by it.
 
What if the American Revolution called for the liberation of humanity, wherever it was deemed to be enslaved, akin to the call of arms which Marx made with Communism. Consequently the American Revolution turns into one of domination akin to how the USSR & the spread of communism is viewed these days...

Discuss.

Domination through the pursuit of liberation? That's rather contradictory, isn't it? The fear of the ComIntern was that a small group at the top of the SU power structure wanted to impose their will on more and mre people. A militaristic drive to spread 'liberty' would be giving democratic choices to more and more people (as was supposed to happen in Iraq), not supplant one ruling class with another. Otherwise the logic and support of the movement would fall apart quickly.

And I think the Americans would quickly find that giving democracy to other nations isn't so easy, as the people of those nations then have to figure out what they want to do with it (as did happen in Iraq).
 
I'm not sure what the OP is calling for... the US would set itself against slavery and monarchy? Seems that wouldn't fly, what with the slavery in the south, and so many prominent FF being Virginians. As for being anti-monarchy.... well, the US isn't going to be able to do anything about that for a loooooooong time, since the US was so militarily weak for so long....
 
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