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Stupidest shit I seen all day lmao

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[–] 19 points 2 hours ago* (1 child)

I feel comfortable being blatantly sarcastic here lol. I've been telling people to read The Civil War in the United States by Marx for years on this site.

Obviously the US Civil War had an effect on the revolutionary consciousness of the world. English workers were actively organizing against the textine owners and holding rallies/striking. Marx was running around documenting the working class movements in the North and in England.

The positions of the Abolitionists were later absorbed by many Communists, and expanded on with the concepts of Wage Slavery. The black revolutionaries in America all built their consciousness in the context of the Civil War.

Reconstruction is used frequently as an example of liberal failure and the need for an organized vanguard ("tankies") to solidify the gains of revolution.

Lenin's dual revolution idea was derived from the failure of the American workers and liberated slaves to sieze power.

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  • [–] 1 point 45 seconds ago

    I'll def check that work out, but I'd have to recommend reading Black Reconstruction in America before any other work. I've never read another book as thorough and soaring of an analysis on every level, and its beautifully written.

    But the M&E collection will be interesting to do a comparison, I don't know much about the movement in Europe to oppose trade with the south. I've heard that workers movements in England had kept these efforts at bay, but Dubois cites northern fears of the South resuming trade with England, Spain, etc., as one of the catalysts for arming former slaves who self emancipated into the Northern armies.

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