Dreamers of a 'left Democratic Party' (was The most dangerous sect...)

[Dhlazare at aol.com]

I would argue that merchant capital was dominant from 1788-89 until
Jefferson's "Revolution of 1800," when the preponderance of power passed to
the Southern, esp. Virginia, planter class.  But you're quite correct in
arguing that 1860-61 represent a revolution against the plantocracy.  Indeed,
I'd go the Beards one step further and argue that it was not the second
American revolution but the first, 1776 being a half revolutionary, half-
reactionary prelude akin to the French "aristocratic revolution" of 1787-89.

Dan Lazare.
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 Michael Hoover wrote

 >successive presidents from the same state (i.e., Jefferson, Madison, 

 and

 >then, Monroe)...

 >

 >in effect, the report aired Federalist grievances against the so-called 

 >'Virginia Dynasty'...other areas of the country saw the Federalists 

 pressing

 >sectional claims amd the party never recovered from this perception...

 

 

 I follow the school of thought that the slaveocracy was the ruling class 

 from this time until the Civil War ;and that the slaveowners' 

 competitors were, of course, the Northern manufacturing/merchantile 

 bourgeoisie. The Southern control of the Presidency and dominance of the 

 federal government is the main evidence of this.  

 

 

 >in 1816, the national economy turned down and in 1819, there was a

 >major crash...in 1820 southern slave states appeared ready to fight

 >northern states over the question of expanding their chattel system

 >westward even as Monroe was running unopposed for reelection to the 

 >presidency...so underneath the 'Era of Good Feelings' were simmering 

 issues 

 >that would dominate the political nation's agenda for the next 40 

 years...

 

 By the above theory, the Civil War was a revolution because it changed 

 the fundamental property relations or relations of production, by 

 abolishing one of the main forms of it, slavery. The war was started as 

 a counterrevolutionary attack by the ruling class of the previous 40 or 

 so years that was doomed by the Republican's and Lincoln's election on a 

 platform of no expansion , though no abolition of slavery. Slavery's 

 economic dynamic required more and more territory, so containment was 

 equivalent to abolition.

 

 

 Charles Brown

 

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