i think their logic is roughly "leftists say the enslavement of africans by european settlers was motivated by the capitalist need for free labor, and that racism is more than an irrational, inexplicable pre-enlightenment aberration" -> "the plantations of the south relied more on this labor than the more industrialized north" -> "leftists blame capitalism, not slavery, for the civil war."
actually that sounds stupid as hell. i'm trying not to strawman here but christ what goes on in their heads?
That's what I was thinking. Maybe a lefty tried to explain how early capitalism created and entrenched slavery, and how two different subgroups of the bourgeoisie formed in the north and south, and the OP thought that they were trying to diminish slavery as the cause.
i think their logic is roughly "leftists say the enslavement of africans by european settlers was motivated by the capitalist need for free labor, and that racism is more than an irrational, inexplicable pre-enlightenment aberration" -> "the plantations of the south relied more on this labor than the more industrialized north" -> "leftists blame capitalism, not slavery, for the civil war."
actually that sounds stupid as hell. i'm trying not to strawman here but christ what goes on in their heads?
That's what I was thinking. Maybe a lefty tried to explain how early capitalism created and entrenched slavery, and how two different subgroups of the bourgeoisie formed in the north and south, and the OP thought that they were trying to diminish slavery as the cause.