Re: [Marxism] RE: 1812 and Star-Spanged Banner

["sartesian" <sartesian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This really verges on the ridiculous.  What's next?  Hymns to the glory
of West Point for graduating Sherman, Grant,  Scott, Meade?

The facts are that the War of 1812 was not a revolutionary struggle, but
inter-capitalist conflict over expansion.  The song itself only became a
national anthem in 1931 as the inaugural to the greatest bloodletting in
capitalist history.

And because Marxists understand things in their historical context, they
don't try and make them things they never were in that context, and
cannot be now  in this context.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Morse" <russell.morse@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Marxmail" <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Louis Proyect"
<lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 5:35 PM
Subject: [Marxism] RE: 1812 and Star-Spanged Banner


> Sartesian writes --
> >
> If this is about what Marxists do, I'd say the *first* thing Marxists
do
> is try to understand things in their historical context.


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