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

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 8 10:45:16 PDT 2010


Joseph Catron wrote:


> It seems pretty obvious to me that the Union chose war for all the
> predictable economic reasons (tariffs, etc.) and used abolitionism - which
> took on a life of its own - to rally the proles. It would be a strange war,
> indeed, in which the bourgeoisie actually came out and told us we were being
> sent to our deaths to enrich them.

Ha. The actual "proles" were among the most anti-abolitionist sectors of society. Have you ever heard of the Draft Riots?

And not only were the abolitionists overwhelmingly bourgeois but the high bourgeoisie had a disproportionate presence among them.

SA



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