/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2509038
>So America never went through a feudalism stage
Cockshott argues in this video…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceXrK7LCvmE

….that the period between the abolition of slavery in 1863 and the total mechanization of agriculture in the 1940s was a period where black southerners were basically treated as serfs. They had no generational wealth to fall back on, and no education, and so many of them basically returned to their plantations, but as sharecroppers instead of slaves. They were tied to the land and paid rent by working. It was essentially a form of quasi-serfdom.

>The petit booj sprang fourth fully formed due to land/resource theft and genocide. No stages of history just right into the industrial age .

English colonists first arrived in the early 1600s and full industrialization wasn't achieved in the USA until the 1930s. In fact a majority of US citizens were still rural until the 1930s.

>I find It’s why You can’t apply a Marxist analogy of Germany or England or France to America.

Marxism is not a dogma to be applied by copy pasting it onto every situation. It is a doctrine of adaptation and evolution to local circumstances. This is why the Chinese call it "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" even though American "communists" who have achieved next to nothing mock them for (allegedly) doing "national socialism."

>So why does Marx still apply this Eurocentric analysis that misses this important point about America in his letters to Lincoln

He doesn't. And he didn't write "letters" (plural) to Lincoln. He co-signed a single letter drafted by the entire first international, an organization he was a member of, to Lincoln.

>and other writings about America?

His other writings about America are remarkably aware of local conditions. He and Engels observed the civil war closely and corresponded about it as it went on, especially since a some of their German comrades from 1848 moved there and fought in the civil war. August Willich. Joseph Weydeymeyer. Marx himself tried to move to Texas but was blocked from doing so.