[Marxism] Shattering a 'national mythology'

[S. Artesian]

Now that's a very interesting argument.  I think your on to something 
there. The role of the Pennsylvania RR in reconstituting the white rule in 
the South in order to develop and control a rail network has been 
documented-- and a hideous history it is.   PRR people always made me gag 
with their "Standard Railroad of the World" bullshit.   Was a New York 
Central man myself, at least in spirit, as I hired out after the 
merger/suicide pact between the Pennsylvania and the NYC. .

As for milongonsinga, he or she really has to pay a bit more attention to 
the concrete determinants of  the developing US economy.  The South was 
indeed dominant, politically, not up until the Civil War, but CONTINUOUSLY 
with a slight interruption by the Civil War and the attempt at 
Reconstruction.

Economically the South was dominant with the change in the US beginning in 
the 1820s.  From that point on, I think almost every issue, if not every 
issue, is all about the South trying to maintain its primacy and hold back 
the North, and the Northwest.

What was the Nullification Crisis about if not the South's attempt to defend 
its economic primacy?  The South's economic dominance significantly weakened 
in the 1850s, but it took the Civil War to break the stranglehold of 
Southern PROPERTY on developing capitalism.

Come on, Milongonsina. Look at the economic weight of slave production in 
the US economy prior to the Civil War.  The historians aren't wrong.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Lause" <markalause at gmail.com>
To: <sartesian at earthlink.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 5:53 PM
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