Bob,
I apologize in advance for not understanding your argument, but I was
curious to know what was the inherent contradiction between slave-labor
and wage-labor in the capitalist world-economy. Your answer is that in
the United States the contradiction was the Civil War. How is the Civil
War a "contradiction." You also use the phrase, "That is a pretty big
difference." What does this mean? A pretty big difference refers to what
two (or more) things?
Andy
Thanks for the apology Andy. But let us not be coy. The gauntlet is thrown.
Counterposed to your theory which underlies your question is the position
that the first American revolution (the only for you?) solved this problem.
Against this is the article which points out that the Civil War was the
second American Revolution which did eliminate the slavocracy but hardly the
central problem of blacks in America and their history and the unfinished
problems which the northern bourgeoisie could not solve and used to not only
lead the blacks into a position in modern society which is not slavery but
racist to the core.
The other problem they solved was creating a black proletariat despite the
trade union bureaucracy which willl play a key role in any future
revolutionary development in this country not only to comple the Civil War
which was the second American revolution but to destroy the society which
came out of the civil war.
Key to understanding this is the article I sent to the list recently.
Warm regards
Bob Malecki
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