Sordhau wrote:If the American Revolution fails then the French Revolution likely doesn't happen, which means the Revolutions of the 1800s also probably won't happen, which means the Revolutions of the 1900s also probably don't happen. The USA is a blight upon the globe, but the American Revolution quite honestly represents a turning point in history that marked the beginning of the end for Monarchism and the rise of Republicanism. In other words more countries have their crowns and the world is a worse place for it.
It would have happened somewhere else within a few decades anyway. The preconditions still existed, and the USA wasn't even the first republic anyway. It's rather lacking in vision to assume that the way something happened in history was the only way it could possibly happen.
As a communist, perhaps you might consider that the American Revolution happened too early in history, and if it had happened a hundred years later with the benefit of an extra century of philosophy and with North America more urbanised and industrialised, it might have been a socialist revolution which didn't leave the world trapped forever in an 18th century frontier notion of democracy beholden to individualism.