Look, if a "was the Civil War worth it" debate is what it takes for the takeosphere to shut up about Harper's, I'm for it.https://twitter.com/JimBovard/status/1281274522709172225 …
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and South would have ended up shooting at each other over something, anyway.
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These are the takes I desire.
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The American Revolution was the real problem. It locked in the power of the planter elite & also ideology of Lockean property rights (providing basis for confederate worldview).
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The Confederate worldview was largely based on neo-feudalism, with the plantation economy standing in for the estate and slaves for serfs. Jefferson's Lockean gloss confuses causes in effect. The Confederacy had rationalizations, not reasons.
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Piketty claims a lot of things.
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This is an especially silly counter-history, because ot has to cover such a large time frame. There’s no 1 event to change and say “what happens from here?” How many years does emancipation take w/o war? 50? Does it wait until WW1?
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2nd US War of Independence?
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There was not, in fact, an alternative, and it’s historically ignorant to suggest otherwise.
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