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On Jul 4, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Mark Lause via Marxism wrote:
Apologies.
In my haste on this subject, I misidentified an article quoting Gerald
Horne with one he had written. The record should be set straight.
None of which mediates the absurdity of describing the American
Revolution
as a "Counterrevolution' . . . as if the British who introduced
slavery and
were making fortunes out of it were on the verge of eliminating it.
The term "counterrevolution" is a blatant anachronism, since neither
the word nor the concept existed or could have existed in 1775. But
slavery certainly had become quite controversial in Britain at that
timke. More to the point, the prohibition of white settler expansion
beyond the Alleghanies was absolutely tantamount to the elimination of
slavery in the continental colonies, since slavery could not exist in
proximity to the vast hinterland of freedom constituted by the
American-ruled interior of the continent!
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
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