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Pro-Slaver Southern philospher who argued for returning to feudal monarchy and even said the South should enslave poor white people.

In order to expand the institution of slavery, Fitzhugh proposed both the enslavement of all free black people and the enslavement of working-class people of all races, making him notable as possibly the only anti-abolitionist to propose slavery be expanded to include white people.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Really doubt he was the only one who wanted to enslave non-black people considering their racism follows their class position and they'd benefit from having more slaves regardless. Also have Rome to be inspired by, etc.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

We treat the Abolitionists and Socialists as identical, because they are notoriously the same people, employing the same arguments and bent on the same schemes. Abolition is the first step in Socialism: ...

... and that proposals by socialists were untested and went against human nature:

Sounds like something a modern day chud would say. Truly ahead of his time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Too soon for his time