They were two different reactions to the same type of problems...
We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal...
In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, 1 serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations.
The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.
No. Americanism is against colonialism and for capitalism. Communism is agaisnt capitalism and oppression, which means you can't buy or sell labor.
>>We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal...
That's right, the basis is "all men are created equal". However, according to Marxism, in capitalism or class society, men are not and will not be equal because of the private ownership of property. So the goal of communism is to achieve a classless society and public ownership.