Sunday, June 22, 2014

The Expropriatress (A WORK IN PROGRESS!)



Doug Henwood:
But, speaking of white people, the liberation of the slaves after the Civil War was probably the greatest expropriation of capital in history. If one counts slaves as wealth—which, grotesquely, was how American society defined them from the country’s founding through 1865—their value was about 150 percent of national income throughout the slavery era. And practically overnight, with Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, they were no longer someone’s property.

"Oh, and she's a fireproof messiah with a trio of flying nuclear dinosaurs at her disposal."

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