The Westward Expansion

would call it a departure from feudalism. If you look back further to the American colonies prior to the revolution, just before the revolution and afterwards, and then the immigrants who came in the late nineteenth century and twentieth century, and even today, you will see in interesting contrast.

The main tenents of today's socialism and feudalism of medieval times are not really different in substance. American colonists and pioneers I think evolved a culture that broke from this tradition. In early America, African slaves were the only people in the colonies who were subjected to feudalism or serfdom. European immigrants arriving through Ellis island also had not undergone a transformation from feudal cultures to the pioneer culture. African American and descendants of Ellis island immigrants make up the bulk of the Democratic party today and the socialist movement in America. With the survival of the Republican party we have the last vestages of the pioneer culture that created this country and provided the immigrants with a better culture than the one their ancestors left and a better culture for the descendants of African slaves than the majority of those residents of continental Africa. One note however, the descendants of African slaves had their ancestral culture taken from them and are tying to piece together a new culture that is uniquely theirs. Some strides are successful and others are cultural catastrophic disasters.

If you look a the "age of enlightenment" philosophy that led to the English civil war and then the other english colonies you can see this by comparing and contrasting the former colonies of Australia, Canada and the United States. The Lockean and other age of enlightenment philosophies could not come fully to fruition in the UK and so, the present UK is firmly socialist.