[lbo-talk] P.S. On Marx on the American Civil War:

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Apr 8 09:50:20 PDT 2010


On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:35 PM, James Heartfield wrote:


> It would be wrong to say that the Jim Crow laws in any way qualified
> the advance that the northern victory in the Civil War represented,
> any more than Stalin's reaction qualified the 1917 revolution. Jim
> Crow was the reaction against the advances made in the first years
> of the reconstruction, and the latter is not reducible to the forme

There was a great deal of support for Jim Crow among northern capitalists, no?

Doug



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