The Role of State Monopoly Capitalism in the American Empire

"Although the radicals in the American revolutionary coalition were briefly ascendant (the Articles of Confederation were, after all, the radical program), an upper-class coalition of Northern merchants and Southern planters, loudly proclaiming a ?crisis? that existed primarily in their pocketbooks, soon carried the day for a new constitution and a greatly strengthened central state." Great scholarly article by Joseph Stromberg.