[Dragaera] Fwd: Peasant fantasy

[Rebecca Harbison via Dragaera]

I seem to recall that racist arguments that black folks were not suited to
running things (either couched in religious or scientific terms) still
existed pre-1960s, but I don't know how well the sharecroppers bought into
that, or more the 'this is how it's always been, and we can't win if we
fight it, because it is bigger than all of us' mentality.  'All men are
created equal' after all was penned by a man who thought he could own black
people as slaves.

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Philip Hart via Dragaera <
dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:

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> On Mon, 3 Nov 2014, skzb at dreamcafe.com wrote:
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>>> Maybe sharecroppers in the American South after the war would count as a
>>> peasant class?
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>> There is implication of a current or past feudal aristocracy, and the
>> Southern Slavocracy (in spite of their best efforts and pretensions) never
>> did qualify as that.
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> A (the?) practical implication I take it is that in a feudal system there
> would be a religious framework for the class structure, an inarguable
> justification, but the black sharecroppers would have access to narratives
> (e.g. "all men are created equal") supporting their right to advancement.
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> Perhaps this reflects Teckla-Easterner discussions that have taken place
> here over the years.
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