[Marxism] Shattering a 'national mythology'

[S. Artesian]

Interesting.  But I'm not sure you consider abolition a disaster, "in the 
short run," economically.

Certainly it wasn't for the North, and while the Civil War took quite a toll 
on the South, the recovery was not inhibited by Reconstruction or the 
attempts of black ex-slaves to organize themselves politically and 
economically.

Someday [right, like I have all the time in the world], I'd really like to 
explore the links between the defeat of Reconstruction to the rollback of 
workers' struggles in Europe, struggles in Mexico, Central America, South 
America and the onset of what is sometimes called the Long Recession, or the 
long stagnation  from the 1870s to the 1890s.   I suspect the setbacks to 
those struggles preserved the obstacles capital was facing to rapid 
expansion.
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