[lit-ideas] Re: Marxi's influence in America
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 00:50:25 +0000 (GMT)
--- Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The issue of Slavery was not at the forefront in
> regard to the Cessation
> Movement that led to the Civil War.
I don't know how you're dating this, Lawrence. The
Missouri Compromise was certainly "about slavery".
In fact I
> probably first learned that
> from a Marxist.
Some Marxists do try to argue like that (the economy
being all and all-determinant), but it's a bit
old-fashioned now.
> The North controlled the transportation and squeezed
> the South in regard to
> the shipping of goods to European markets.
True, also true that a feudal South faced a capitalist
North.
I accept that numerous factors were involved here.
But I am inclined to stand by
LK> >The Civil War was begun over States Rights and
not
> Slavery.
>
JE> But the States Rights at issue were bound up with
> slavery.
(But it is a long time since I studied US history)
>
>
>
> Judy Evans, Cardiff
Judy Evans, Cardiff
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