Hellas me ponas wrote:
Well I know these.
But this isn't about real politics and economics.
This is about small scale interpersonal ideas and beliefs.
American revolution never happened because Americans wanted "freedom and equality". But they had to sell to the masses soemthing they can fight for and because elitistic interests don't sound so good for the many, freedom and equality play this role.
You're missing-out on the historical *context*, though -- the American-*nationalist* sentiments of 'freedom' and 'equality' were *real*, relative to the British Empire's monarch and the feudalist social hierarchy defined by the monarch at the apex of the social pyramid.
Sure, *class* relations still existed into the new nation of the U.S., and they still exist today, meaning that 'freedom' and 'equality' aren't *absolutes*, but they *do* make sense in relation to what preceded the American bourgeois revolution, which was *feudalism*.
I'll readily agree that we *don't* have freedom or equality today, nor in 1776, due to the persistence of the class division in society. (See my diagrams.)
Hellas me ponas wrote:
So again, an average, normal American, his whole identity consists of fighting against absolutism and racism and inequality. Thus how come does his mind get to be racist and claim he is American at the same time?
Again I'd say that you're ignoring *class relations* -- society is not homogenous and 'pure', as you're assuming it to be. There are *wealthy* Americans, and there are *lower status* Americans, due to having to work, family responsibilities, financial stresses, uncertainty, ill health, lack of social connections, bad habits, out-group identities, etc.
Sure, bourgeois-type social sentiments like anti-absolutism, anti-racism, anti-inequality are fine and valid today, but they're also *old* and outdated. Since the development of *industrial implements* the question in society is that of *who controls production*, and not-so-much *social politics*, though that continues to fester due to the *production* question (class) remaining unresolved, similar to the period of 1100-1776 (approximately) for the merchants, against feudalism.
The U.S. has a *history* of racism from the very beginning, with slavery, so I don't see how you can blithely *dichotomize* the nation and the social ill of racism, in any way.