[lbo-talk] Re: Thanksgiving

[Michael Perelman]

Josh could have mentioned that the International Working Man's Assn. was
instrumental in keeping the British from siding with the South.

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 01:11:15PM -0500, JW Mason wrote:
> 
> In the well-known quote from Capital Vol. 1, "In the United States of North
> America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as
> slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself
> in the white skin where in the black it is branded But out of the death of
> slavery a new life at once arose. The first fruit of the Civil War was the
> eight hours' agitation..." Etc.
> 

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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