To End Racism and Police Brutality, End Capitalism!

[nadinbrzezinski]

198. The problem is that Marx never talked of Slavery as more than just a primitive form

of labor. To him it actually preceded the Serf-Master relationship of the middle ages. He also never said that once an economic system was superseded in the dialectic, older forms would not remain in the periphery of the system. Which is precisely what happened in the American south.

There is more, he said like zip, zero, nada on racism. And modern economic historians understand the rise of modern day slavery as a product of mercantilism. The American south continued to work under mercantilism (and did not have that much of a manufacturing base) until well after the civil war. Jesus, this even includes some Marxist historians. Of course serious folks use it as a basis to create a theory of history, not one on how to run an economy any more. With the death of the USSR... we all know socialism works, like that of Northern European nations, but communism does not.

We get it, Marx was an incredibly gifted historian.