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All right so most of the US so-called “founding fathers” were horrible genocidal slave-owners, and that is pretty much true across the board, but it turns out that Thomas Paine was actually pretty okay. He never owned slaves, regularly denounced slavery and lost a ton of influence among the revolutionary leadership because of it. He also thought that private property was fundamentally unjust and that all private property owners should be duty bound to pay back a guaranteed income to the poor because of what they stole from the commons. So if you have hyper American patriots you are trying to open up to some leftist ideas, Thomas Paine is probably the go to guy. His pamphlet Agrarian Justice, specifically

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5. shylockshouldhavewon1 said: Would have been a Loyalist, but Thomas Paine was awesome.
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