An interesting speech:
http://www.freespeech.org/fscm2/ramg...6196_stream.rm
He has some good points. I actually thought the US civil war was about states rights, at least philosophically, but I appear to be wrong...
Complete articles of succession.
Quote:
OPENING STATEMENT OF MISSISSIPPIS' ARTICLES
""""In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course.
Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.
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Etc. I was ignorant.
The Marxist ... basis ... of the speech doesn't line up with my personal world view.
But the use of "you aren't the bottom of the heap -- you are standing on someone else" to coopt the underclass would be, and probably is, a useful technique.
Hmm...