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Tom Cod ([email protected]) wrote on 2010-01-14 at 10:23:12 in about Re: [Marxism] Freya von Moltke, Part of a Core of Nazi Resistance, Is Dead at 98: > About the small-scale German unification facilitated by the German-French war of 1870-71: > > sorry but IMHO, basic logic and moral reasoning will illuminate the > basic differences. The Civil War was a necessary war that liberated > millions from slavery. which was a historic necessity for the development of capitalism, which needs "free labor" (free of property). The slave economy grew to a cancer on the US-american capital, in order to exist, the slavocracy had to expand to other states besides Dixieland. > The Prussian war did no such thing at all but was solely It was not a Prussian war. The positive thing was that the Prussian aristocracy managed to arouse a popular national mobilisation of all of Germany, to draw the southern German principalities into the common war effort, and thus lay the basis for the proclamation of the second "Reich" (empire) by the Prussian king in Versailles. > designed to advance the imperial interests of greater Germany like the US civil war, it was a historic necessity to unite the German nation into one nation state, both as national internal market for capital and as the forum in which the workers movement could grow in a larger, national scale instead of those little duodez principalities. > and thus merited no support from progressive people. both. But both wars were also mixed bags. The Union originally had not the intention of liberating the slaves, it only stumbled towards it during the war. The German war of 1870/71 not only brought most of Germany together in one state, and not only overthrew Boustrapa [1], but also allied with the French bourgeoisie against the French workers. One has to analyse the contradictory reality. Cheers, Lüko Willms Frankfurt, Germany -------------------------------- visit http://www.mlwerke.de Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, Lenin, Trotzki in German ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
