Seems to have Could have Sorry, I don’t buy it > On May 7, 2021, at 10:57 PM, David Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The discussion is interesting and I hope is ongoing. I find myself in > agreement with Mark Lause here against those that believe Slavery > (preservation thereof) was the the key or major reason for the revolution. I > find myself in reviewing the works of Phillip Goodrich and Alfred Blumrosen > not to mention the one who really seems to of started this revisionism, > Gerald Horne, to be lacking in historical evidence. It's as if the three > authors want this to be the reason for the revolution. I don't find this to > be substantiated by the actual politics of the day. To poise Ben Franklin as > the instigator of what can only be considered a conspiracy theory convincing > a whole class Tory slave owners in the South to prognosticate 60 years later > to a time when the British Empire goes abolitionist is, in my book, > desperate. Sorry...I don't by it. > > > > All this could of more easily been understood, especially by the above 3 > writers not to mention the author of the CounterPunch article had they read > and parsed Ted Allen's 2 volume The Invention of the White Race. Unlike > Horne, who rejects a class analysis, Allen gets it and can explain the "whys" > and "hows" of racism and where it comes from. It is a pity he is no longer > around to chime in on this discussion. > > > > Generally I find a lot of good use for 1619 Project in education if only > because it rejects the established "Founding Fathers" civics understanding of > history and can cut through the BS. I was fortunate to have a high school > education that not only did parse out slavery but also forced us to examine > how it effected us a 110 years after the civil war (I graduated in 1975). But > many don't. I'm hoping socialists and revolutionaries can take from the > Project that which is worth taking but continue to adhere to a Marxist, class > understanding of what slavery meant *and* why the American Revolution > occurred, which, sadly, means rejecting much of what Horne, et al, write. > > > > Lastly I agree with criticism others have raised (maybe Mark?) about the > title of the CounterPunch article which sadly positions the question of > racism in the context of the GOP and the MAGA sychophants instead of the > class struggle and is quite flippant about the assumption that the threat of > abolitionism was a major reason for the American Revolution. > > > > David Walters > > > > > >
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