Certainly long before the Louisiana purchase, and other westward expansion. Russia is less of a prison of nations that the US is.
Nah, if America didn’t use slave labour it never would have become as powerful as it is. Maybe if they immediately began building communism, but the population would be half the size it is today
Depends on your definition of great, I suppose. If by great you mean an industrial powerhouse, the home of modern medicine, a place where living standards were super high, then no. All of that was enabled by slavery and exploitation.
It wouldn’t have been any greater than any other country outside of the imperial core.
If the plan was to immediately build communism, the mercantilist monarchies would have never funded the expeditions to cross the sea
Let’s suppose they abolished slavery and hit the communism button straight after the revolution. They already would have had a population of Immigrants, ex-slaves, and natives to work with.
while we’re at it what if the Romans had instead of building an empire had decided to build communism
