[lbo-talk] US Civil War (was Platypus etc)

[Chris Doss]

"Some sort of conflict" is a lot broader than "bloody war."

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From: James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>

But that is a false opposition. Nothing happens by economics alone. There would have had to have been some kind of conflict for the slaveowners to have been forced out of their social position.