War and Radical Reconstruction - Interview With Marius Trotter
Added 2024-01-05 23:03:40 +0000 UTCIn this second part of our discussion with American Communist writer Marius Trotter we examine the civil war and reconstruction period. We also discuss the importance of a proper understanding of American revolutionary history for communists in this period.
Outro Music is 'This Land Is Your Land' performed by Pete Seeger
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“Lincoln was hoping against hope that the Southern political class would come to its senses and realise how disastrous a civil war would be. It wasn’t until almost the every end, there was no way of getting out of it. The South was not willing to make even the most modest of compromises and continued to make more and more outrageous demands as its actual position just got weaker and weaker.” ending at 20:31 The US empire today is the South then, with Xi in the position that Lincoln was in - hoping to avoid war.
Abra K
2024-01-06 13:02:14 +0000 UTC
