Re: From Rakesh [ reply to DMS]

["dmschanoes" <dmschanoes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rakesh

Reread your post and came away with this  item that I overlooked last time:

 " Northern industry would continue to stand on the pedestal of open slavery
outside the borders of the US
 and even for all practical purposes within (we'll have to study the history
of mining in the Southwest)."

Where was this pedestal of open slavery outside the borders upon which
Northern industry stood?  Cuba?  Brazil?

You will be hard pressed to argue for the economic gravity of Cuba and or
Brazil in the post Civil War expansion of  the United States.

And within?  Where is the open slavery, not debt bondage, share-cropping,
tenant-farming, where is the open slavery that is so crucial to the support
of the Northern industrialists.

We are not talking about any variation upon the theme of indentured labor,
but open slavery that is the pivot, as slavery was, for providing the motor
of capitalist development.  (I prefer referring to slavery as the fuel, the
social relation of wage-labor and capital, the capitalization of land, being
the real motor, but this is close enough).

Where is it?

dms



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