The article also noted with respect to the Civil War: "At the time the northern states had 801,000 factory workers against 79,000 in the South ... It should be noted that in the Union or pro-Union states there were about 443,000 enslaved people, in contrast to the 3,522,000 in the Confederate states. ... It seems quite clear that the 19th-century conflict was not only an economic one but also a conflict between modes of production."
and "... during the 19th-century war the color fault line clearly distinguished two types of economy (for example, the 96,000 industrial plants in the North from the 17,000 in the South)..." On 3 Feb 2021 at 9:34, Louis Proyect wrote: > > The North, at the time of secession, was headed, > along with the rest of the country, by Abraham > Lincoln, who was also the first president of a > newly-born party the Republicans; while the > Confederate states were represented by a > Democratic party, which in that era, and for some > time afterwards, represented the interests of the > large landowners who owned slaves and of small > landowners who, though their use of slave labor > was modest compared to that of the large > plantations, also lived on the export of cotton and > tobacco to industries across the Atlantic. Indeed, > as Marx had already noted in 1847 in The Poverty of > Philosophy, the slavery of the US South had little or > nothing to do with ancient slavery but constituted a > modern system of exploitation, indispensable for > the development of British and European > manufacturing capitalism. > https://brooklynrail.org/2021/02/field-notes/Fault-Line-of-the-Ameri > can-Civil-War > > -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6077): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6077 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80354274/21656 -=-=- 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: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
