[lbo-talk] the proclamation

Jeffrey Fisher jeff.jfisher at gmail.com
Wed Apr 7 20:14:23 PDT 2010


On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> . . . and not by the justice of their cause, in case anyone wondered about
> > that . . . .
> >
>
> A transition between historical stages has nothing to do with abstract
> notions of "justice." If Marx was ever right about anything, such a
> progression will rather entail a shift between the moralities of different
> ruling classes.
>
>
Well, for what it's worth, my point was not that their cause was just (and therefore they won). More that what underlay the whole proclamation was precisely the justice of the confederate cause.

Or maybe I misread it. It happens.

j



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