Cannibals All! Or, Slaves without MastersHarvard University Press, 30 Jun 2009 - 304 halaman Cannibals All! got more attention in William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator than any other book in the history of that abolitionist journal. And Lincoln is said to have been more angered by George Fitzhugh than by any other pro-slavery writer, yet he unconsciously paraphrased Cannibals All! in his House Divided speech. Fitzhugh was provocative because of his stinging attack on free society, laissez-faire economy, and wage slavery, along with their philosophical underpinnings. He used socialist doctrine to defend slavery and drew upon the same evidence Marx used in his indictment of capitalism. Socialism, he held, was only the new fashionable name for slavery, though slavery was far more humane and responsible, the best and most common form of socialism. His most effective testimony was furnished by the abolitionists themselves. He combed the diatribes of their friends, the reformers, transcendentalists, and utopians, against the social evils of the North. Why all this, he asked, except that free society is a failure? The trouble all started, according to Fitzhugh, with John Locke, a presumptuous charlatan, and with the heresies of the Enlightenment. In the great Lockean consensus that makes up American thought from Benjamin Franklin to Franklin Roosevelt, Fitzhugh therefore stands out as a lone dissenter who makes the conventional polarities between Jefferson and Hamilton, or Hoover and Roosevelt, seem insignificant. Beside him Taylor, Randolph, and Calhoun blend inconspicuously into the American consensus, all being apostles of John Locke in some degree. An intellectual tradition that suffers from uniformity--even if it is virtuous, liberal conformity--could stand a bit of contrast, and George Fitzhugh can supply more of it than any other American thinker. |
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... false identifications , he calls it " one of the great and creative episodes in the history of American thought , " and its protagonists " the only Western conserva- tives America has ever had . ” 1 Hartz is quite justified in placing ...
... false identifications , he calls it " one of the great and creative episodes in the history of American thought , " and its protagonists " the only Western conserva- tives America has ever had . ” 1 Hartz is quite justified in placing ...
Halaman xvii
... false and rotten to the core . " Such a system not only opened the way for the rich and strong to exploit the poor and weak individuals , but under the guise of " free trade " it paved the way to empire by enabling the industrial and ...
... false and rotten to the core . " Such a system not only opened the way for the rich and strong to exploit the poor and weak individuals , but under the guise of " free trade " it paved the way to empire by enabling the industrial and ...
Halaman xix
... false philosophy , which , beginning with Locke , in a refined materialism , had ripened on the Continent into open infidelity . " For a long time these abstractions were a dead letter , had little effect , and did little harm , since ...
... false philosophy , which , beginning with Locke , in a refined materialism , had ripened on the Continent into open infidelity . " For a long time these abstractions were a dead letter , had little effect , and did little harm , since ...
Halaman xx
... false but immoral . " If all men had been created equal , all would have been competitors , rivals , and enemies . " Na- ture had a better plan . " Subordination , difference of caste and classes , difference of sex , age , and slavery ...
... false but immoral . " If all men had been created equal , all would have been competitors , rivals , and enemies . " Na- ture had a better plan . " Subordination , difference of caste and classes , difference of sex , age , and slavery ...
Halaman xxxiv
... false and unnecessary theo- ries invoked to justify it that were radical , agrarian and an- archical . " These were the theories of John Locke , " a pre- sumptuous charlatan , who was as ignorant of the science or practice of government ...
... false and unnecessary theo- ries invoked to justify it that were radical , agrarian and an- archical . " These were the theories of John Locke , " a pre- sumptuous charlatan , who was as ignorant of the science or practice of government ...
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