• @Jimbo
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    121 year ago

    Everybody in the north patted themselves on the back for ending slavery and said oh look how moral we are and then put a buuut in IMMEDIATELY afterwards

    • Even Marx got duped back then. Remember the enthusiastic letter he wrote to Lincoln? It was in the precise moment between the war getting decided and 13 amendment.

        • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          Yes, nobody blame him, just pointing out that even back then US was a duplicious shit country with excellent propaganda.

          Hell even Lenin got tangled into one-sided view on US agriculture despite actually studying the sources.