Did the Good Guys Win in 1776? w Gerald Horne

In our audio podcast, we have Gerald Horne to talk about the founding of our Nation. He is a professor and the author of <a href="https://monthlyreview.org/author/geraldhorne/">countless books</a> including <a href="https://nyupress.org/9781479893409/the-counter-revolution-of-1776/">The Counter-Revolution of 1776</a> and the upcoming The Dawning of&#160; the Apocalypse, which is set to be released later this year. In today&#8217;s audio episode, Gerald Horne explores the class character of the 1776 revolt, he also brings in vivid details about the geopolitical space during that time that lead to the formation of the country. Gerald Horn also makes a provocative case that 1776 is a counter-revolution. Finally, we connect the events of 1776 to the rest of American history and what it means for us, as a people, for the future.<br/><br/>To listen to Gerald Horne&#8217;s WBAI appearance, <a href="https://www.wbai.org/archive/program/episode/?id=10748">click here</a><br/><br/>Excerpt from The Dawning of the Apocalypse<br/><br/>THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT the predicates of the rise of England, moving from the periphery to the center (and inferentially, this is a story about their revolting spawn in North America post-1776). This is also a book about the seeds of the apocalypse, which led to the foregoing&#8212;slavery, white supremacy, and settler colonialism (and the precursors of capitalism)&#8212;planted in the long sixteenth century (roughly 1492 to 1607), which eventuated in what is euphemistically termed &#8220;modernity,&#8221; a process that reached its apogee in North America, the essential locus of this work. In these pages I seek to explain the global forces that created this catastrophe&#8212;notably for Africans and the indigenous of the Americas&#8212;and how the minor European archipelago on the fringes of the continent (the British isles) was poised to come from behind, surge ahead, and maneuver adeptly in the potent slipstream created by Spain, Portugal, the Ottomans, even the Dutch and the French, as this