[lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Apr 8 10:32:04 PDT 2010


On Apr 8, 2010, at 1:10 PM, SA wrote:


> But the point is that for the majority of the South's population, it
> wasn't one country. It was one group of states attacking another
> group of states. It was only called a Civil War in the North.

Well of course the South would say that. But I still don't see how one can call a central government's response to secession by a region that joined the nation by choice, not conquest, imperialism in the same sense as bombing a foreign country and/or changing its government.



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