China and the West

[Irving, Washington]. A'erhanbola. Huashengdun Ouwen zhu ; Wan Zi, Yu Ning yi [ID D34195].
Wan Zi and Yu Ning writes : America had just won its independence when Irving started to write. The American Revolution is the same as any other revolution led by the bourgeois class—after the rule was subverted, it was the American bourgeois who became the new rulers and exploiters. During the anti-colonial War of Independence, farmers, craftsmen, and workers shouldered the entire burden, despite leading extremely difficult lives. After the war ended, the bourgeois class rapidly took possession of the victory. A few years after Irving was born, the economy collapsed; there was devaluation and then severe inflation. Farmers were forced to resort to demonstrations under such pressures. The American bourgeois, landowners, and slave-owners were busy changing the political institutions of the country, with the purpose of establishing organs of state power to protect the profits of the exploiting class.