Apologies to your ego... I've read Marx, but I honestly think Ruskin had better ideas. So did Thoreau, and Coomaraswamy.

18th c. England was the Industrial Revolution, using the American colonies as a source of raw material and a dumping ground for excess people. Enclosure (the Highland Clearances for example) had a significant effect on patterns of land ownership and farming practices, and thus on the temperament of the Colonists who revolted. Historians, and the dismal scientists, have convenently avoided seeing that for two centuries.

cf. Hammond