I see the revolutionary core of it as the direct action activists engaged
in undermining the security of slavery by aiding runaways. This started
small, among mostly free blacks but it esclated to the point where you had
groups like John Brown's, raiding into Missouri.
There are analogies to late
Also keep in mind that the emergence of the Republican Party as the ruling
party in the US was accompanied by a very bloody civil war, since their rise to
political dominance was violently resisted by the Southern slavocracy. And that
level of violence had already been anticipated by the bloody
My short take on this: You would never have had a Republican Party without
the earlier efforts at both electoral insurgency--the Liberty
Party/National Reformers, and the later Free Democrats, many involved in
direct action resistance in Kansas and on the Underground Railroad. We
will have no succ
You'll find some useful elements in here.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv69tg5b
On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 11:02 AM Steven L. Robinson via groups.io wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Good points all.
>
> The best and, as far as I can recall, only successful break with the two
> party system in U.S. history o
Thanks Charles.
> On 07/10/2024 9:13 AM PDT Charles Rachlis via groups.io
> wrote:
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>
> Steven,
>
> asked for a Marxist history of the rise of the Republican party.
>
>
> Se
> https://global.oup.com/academic/product/free-soil-free-labor-free-men-9780195094978?cc=us&lang=en&;
> Fre
Steven,
asked for a Marxist history of the rise of the Republican party.
Se
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/free-soil-free-labor-free-men-9780195094978?cc=us&lang=en&Free
Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The ideology of the Republican party before the
civil war. By Eric Foner
Charles R
Mark,
Good points all.
The best and, as far as I can recall, only successful break with the two party
system in U.S. history on a national level was the one that gave rise to the
Republican Party, which was not the result of the will of a single charismatic
individual or a single political t
A few thoughts here on the campaigns of West and Stein.
1. We need a real, militant independent party, not just one-shot protest
votes. It might make people feel better to "speak truth to power," but the
real question is seizing power. That means organizing, an engaged mass
membership, a leadersh
