[Marxism] On the 1812 war

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Respuesta a:"Marxism Digest, Vol 30, Issue 66"
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Con fecha:29 Apr 2006, a las 18:04

> So, it was appropriate that a poem and song celebrating the defense of
> the city by its people against the best efforts of regular military
> and naval forces seems appropriate became really popular in the early
> days of the Lincoln administration.
> 
> If the immigrant workers' movement today finds is usable, more power
> to them.
> 

The 1812 war put the Northeastern commercial bourgeoisie -who were 
scared because the war would deprive them of the profits of overseas 
trade (mainly with... Britain)- against the wall.  It alsoforced the 
[Northern] US to turn to manufacture and self-centered development.  
The Hartford Convention incident marked a Rubicon in American 
politics.

I understand that today's cdes. don't see these events, which are 
embedded in the history of the (bourgeois) USofA, but without these 
events, which were the direct result of "Mr. Madison's War" there 
would have been no Second USAmerican Revolution in the 1860s, and 
most probably there would not exist a unified country "from sea to 
sea" between the 30th and 50th paralells in the Northern tier of the 
American continent.



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Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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"La patria tiene que ser la dignidad arriba y el regocijo abajo".
Aparicio Saravia
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