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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Replying to @daveweigel
Counter-historicals is always a crapshoot, but the U.S. was the only nation in the Western hemisphere apart from Haiti that needed violence to end slavery, so possibly there was an alternative. However, I view the American Civil War as the 3rd English Civil War, so I figure North
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Replying to @FranklinH3000 @daveweigel
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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Replying to @HeerJeet @daveweigel
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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Like all ideologies it was a mishmash but the idea that property (even human property) is sacred was crucial, and much of the neo-feudialism was just Walter Scott LARPing.
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