youngian wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 2:55 pm
The American civil war was partly a class war due to the need of industrialising capitalist states of the North to have a plentiful supply of cheap mobile labour for their factories. Bonded agricultural labour stifles that demand. The point Griffin misses is that there was no mass exodus from Detroit factories to pick cotton in Mississippi, shackled with no wages.
It's a common cause of Civil War.
Have a look at the splits in the English Civil War.
Crudely presented as Catholic Monarch Vs Reformation Parliament.
Much of that "Reformation" gang represented an urban trading or industrial base.
Compare with the extensive landowners among the Royalists.
It explains another trajectory of many civil wars.
Early success for the country lads who know how to ride a horse.
Later big win for the urban elites who can secure a supply of powder and shot.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. Aristotle