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technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
They weren’t fighting over some mode of production.
The enslavers were killing people in order to maintain their extreme privilege based on violent control.
Nothing much has changed since then.
bss03@infosec.pub 1 week ago
The same states spent another 100 years successfully fighting against equal treatment. The war wasn’t about modes of production; it was about the definition of personhood.
(I’m from Arkansas. We’ve got some crazy Christian Identitarian sects that still openly racist, and don’t believe Jesus saved non-whites.)