On Fri, October 30, 1998 at 12:00:06 (-0500) Louis Proyect writes:
>...
>I will argue that something was rotten at the core of this republic from
>the inception. I am particularly interested in the whole question of
>Manifest Destiny, which foreshadows imperialism not only in its
>understanding that the US must expand outwards but in its racism as well.
You might appreciate Anders Stephenson, *Manifest Destiny: American
Expansion and the Empire of Right* (Hill & Wang, 1995), from which:
It is peculiar to the character of this Anglo-Saxon race of men
to which we belong, that it has never been contented to live in
the same country with any other distinct race, upon terms of
equality; it has, invariably, when placed in that situation,
proceeded to exterminate or enslave the other race in some form
or other, or, failing that, to abandon the country.
---Senator Benjamin Leigh of Virginia during "Jacksonion epoch"
Bill
