Having studied the topic thoroughly for a decade, the undeniable reality is that the accumulative processes necessary for the constitution of the American capitalist system were dependent upon the racialized slavery system.
In the Grundrisse , which was only published in 1939 in Moscow and in English in 1973 by Vintage, has a direct mention of American slavery as a form of capitalism, throwing to the wind the claim by Eugene Genovese, et. al. that the South was a feudal economy. "The fact that we now not only call the plantation owners in America capitalists, but that they - *are* - capitalists, is based on their existence as anomalies within a world market based on free labour." [Emphasis in original] (pg. 513, Martin Nicolaus translation) Noel Ignatiev's scholarly review of Foner's book on Reconstruction traces out the entirety of a debate within the Sojourner Truth Organization and people like Roediger and Glaberman over the matter < https://libcom.org/library/ american-blindspot- reconstruction-according-eric- foner-web-du-bois-noel- ignatiev#footnote2_0zxgoiz ( https://libcom.org/library/american-blindspot-reconstruction-according-eric-foner-web-du-bois-noel-ignatiev#footnote2_0zxgoiz ) > and < https://www.marxists.org/ history/usa/pubs/ sojournertruth/slaverysymp.pdf ( https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/sojournertruth/slaverysymp.pdf ) > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1790): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1790 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76872793/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
