...the southern slave plantation bourgeoisie kicking and screaming into industrial capitalism.

The slave economy was a drag on the more developed form of capitalism that was about to revolutionise the world. Everything else is just window dressing and fancy speeches.

  • SteveHasBunker [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Idk, I have one question about this Theory.

    Why would the northern bourgeois give a fuck if some Cornel Sanders looking mother fuckers want to drink mint juleps and own slaves? Was the northern bourgeois in need of the south? Couldn’t they just let them have their little shitty pseudo feudal society and buy cheap cotton from them? Seems weird to start such a nasty war just to drag them into industrialization when you could just focus on industrializing your own turf.