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@elonmusk@visegrad24 I'll correct myself: his main influence would have likely occurred in the 1950s, because that was where the meat of his teaching methods were developed.
I think Friere's effect happened independently of our cultural takeover. Friere's main influence occurred in Brazil in the 1940s, so this does not seem like any cultural export from the US. Correct me if I am wrong. In fact, Friere did not influence the US until Petagogy of the Oppressed was published around 1970, and that was years after he was exiled to Chile.
@CynicalPublius Yeah, but I have a millennial friend who basically lives on a farm, sells things from it, and lives like a trad-wife... but is also a woke-style socialist who probably secretly fantasizes about deep throating Mamdani.
Lincoln grew up dirt poor and barely received even a year of education, taught himself how to read, and later pursued a law career on his own self-made merits. He wasn't "working class" enough?! Then again, not sure how much was known to Marx and Engels about his early life as the son of a carpenter and yeoman farmer in Kentucky and Indiana.
Far-left historians today often exaggerate the importance of slavery to capitalism by tracing cotton's derivative products globally.
That said, there is one 19th century figure who directly benefitted from slave-produced cotton: Karl Marx.
For most of his adult life, Marx relied on handouts from his friend Friedrich Engels for his main source of income. From the 1840s-1869 Marx send Engels a non-stop stream of requests for money, which Engels usually obliged. After 1869, Engels sold his business partnership and began giving Marx a regular yearly allowance from the proceeds that more or less lasted until his death in 1883.
Engels's business, in turn, was a large textile mill in Manchester operated by his father's firm Ermen and Engels. And what did that mill make? Yarns and fabrics out of slave-produced cotton, which it sourced from the American south.
We know this because, in 1862, Engels wrote a letter to Marx about the American Civil War in which he reported that cotton from the south had dried up because of the blockade. Other business records indicate that Ermen and Engels got their cotton from shipments through Liverpool, which in the 1840s-1861 meant southern plantation cotton imports from the United States. Indeed, southern cotton would have been the raw material that sustained the majority of Engels' working career since he retired only 4 years after the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery in the United States. His firm likely also got cotton from other sources such as Egypt during the Civil War, but for most of his multi-decade career there, the cotton would have been slave-produced.
That means Engels very much made his family fortune as a derivative beneficiary of American slavery. And he used that slave-derived fortune to directly subsidize Karl Marx ;-)
@kunley_drukpa I prefer the more competent and orderly (stoic?) aspects of the right (the parts that actually seek beauty and meaning) but I also sometimes enjoy the creative chaos of the more liberal left. There is undoubtedly a "retard right" that gives so much to the retard left though π
I've suspected this since the events in Charlottesville and tried to make points on it in so many ways, but people only called me names. There are those unfortunates who cannot be convinced of what is right in front of them and they will lash out at you for even suggesting that they look.