> > Recognition of their fundamentally common interests also defined the > restrictions imposed on the Reconstruction, anything that the freed people > attempted. > > >
It's a little bit one sided to talk about "recognition of their fundamentally common interests" while at the same time dismissing their fundamentally antagonistic interests that a) dominate the US political scene from 1820 through 1865, led to a civil war, breakup of the union, more deaths than any other period of combat, and destruction of one of the party's fundamental interests--its property mode, Yes the bankers in NY, the retail and merchant bankers, the textile factory owners in Manchester, the shipowners transporting the cotton were capitalist. They accumulated either by the exploitation of wage labor, or by claiming part of the surplus value r ealized in marketing the output of product produced or transported by free laborers (that doesn't mean the banks didn't lend, appropriate. trade in slave products. Bankers are a special lot and deserve a special place in hell). That the original material was produced by slaves doesn't make the owner of slaves a capitalist. or slavery a capitalism. Enmeshed? Yes Critical to? Yes. But fundamentally the same? No, if that were the case I can't imagine why they went to war. Competition? I know ML has written a lot about this. I've read it. And disagree. We define capitalism by the mode of its organization of labor. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33857): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33857 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109886990/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
