Fairly sure he's not a historical leg to stand on with that. Fascism was a product of WWI, just like Communism. Take out WWI and you distort fascism itself, just as you can't approach the Soviet Union without knowledge of the Eastern Front of 1914-7. Neither can you approach the history of the US totalitarianism without being aware of the extent to which the Civil War as Ulysses S. Grant single-handedly defeating every single CS general unfortunate enough to run into him co-existed with multiple civil wars pitting Southern whites v. Southern whites.
You had your guys like Major General Thomas and CS Adjutant General Samuel Cooper, generals of the regular armies from "the wrong" section, but you also had various local dissident groups and black and white anti-CS Southerners serving in the regular US Army.
This the Planters and landowners never forgave or forgot, and this is why they clamped down with a jackboot on any sign of white or black dissent.
Should be required reading in the study of US racism and our own totalitarianism because without them a lot of Southern politics and why the USA became what it did is not understandable. It also goes far to answer Neiwert and Robinson's typical over-generalized points that gloss over the nuance of history as it was.
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Date: 2011-08-04 06:16 pm (UTC)You had your guys like Major General Thomas and CS Adjutant General Samuel Cooper, generals of the regular armies from "the wrong" section, but you also had various local dissident groups and black and white anti-CS Southerners serving in the regular US Army.
This the Planters and landowners never forgave or forgot, and this is why they clamped down with a jackboot on any sign of white or black dissent.
These two books:
http://www.amazon.com/South-Vs-Anti-Confederate-Southerners-Shaped/dp/0195156293
http://www.amazon.com/Bitterly-Divided-Souths-Inner-Civil/dp/1595581081
Should be required reading in the study of US racism and our own totalitarianism because without them a lot of Southern politics and why the USA became what it did is not understandable. It also goes far to answer Neiwert and Robinson's typical over-generalized points that gloss over the nuance of history as it was.