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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... tion and desultory reading , picked up our information by the wayside , and endeavored to arrange , generalize , and digest it for ourselves . " 14 Unlike many defenders of the South , he took pains to read the opposition . " We have ...
... tion and desultory reading , picked up our information by the wayside , and endeavored to arrange , generalize , and digest it for ourselves . " 14 Unlike many defenders of the South , he took pains to read the opposition . " We have ...
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... Treatise on Sociology ( Phila- delphia , 1854 ) the same year . 23 Fitzhugh , Sociology , pp . 11-14 ; see also p . 133 . 24 Ibid . , p . 145 . tion to their problems . Both his economic and social GEORGE FITZHUGH , SUI GENERIS xvii.
... Treatise on Sociology ( Phila- delphia , 1854 ) the same year . 23 Fitzhugh , Sociology , pp . 11-14 ; see also p . 133 . 24 Ibid . , p . 145 . tion to their problems . Both his economic and social GEORGE FITZHUGH , SUI GENERIS xvii.
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... tion , Fitzhugh turned to the socialists . He was concerned here mainly with English and French socialists , and he treated them with a great deal more respect than he had Adam Smith and the classical economists . Few realized , he ...
... tion , Fitzhugh turned to the socialists . He was concerned here mainly with English and French socialists , and he treated them with a great deal more respect than he had Adam Smith and the classical economists . Few realized , he ...
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... tion of rights , no valid limitations of power , no security to State Rights . The power to construe them , is the power to nullify them.30 " Institutions are what men can see , feel , venerate and under- stand , " such institutions as ...
... tion of rights , no valid limitations of power , no security to State Rights . The power to construe them , is the power to nullify them.30 " Institutions are what men can see , feel , venerate and under- stand , " such institutions as ...
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... tion of history . He grounded his critique on something rather similar to the Marxian dialectic of class struggle . His writ- ing by this time reveals acquaintance with Marx's Commu- nist Manifesto , and he interpreted each political ...
... tion of history . He grounded his critique on something rather similar to the Marxian dialectic of class struggle . His writ- ing by this time reveals acquaintance with Marx's Commu- nist Manifesto , and he interpreted each political ...
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