What’s the difference between a civil war and a revolution to overthrow the rich?

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    I’m sure it is documented, but I’m just thinking now if families during the civil war were as divided over politics as people are today.

    My Dad loves Trump, I am on the other side. I would not fight in a war, as I would not fight against my family even though we do not agree politically.

    • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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      5 hours ago

      Ken Burn’s “The Civil War”, goes over that. Clocks in at about 10 hours, and a fair bit of it is about families, letters, the political heat that lead up to the splintering, and so forth.

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      2 days ago

      Yes. That was a huge part of the civil war. There are volumes written from first hand perspective about families being torn apart over the war. Families meeting on the battle field, on opposite ends.

      That absolutely happened back then.

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        5 hours ago

        Not so many books were written at the time about the families torn apart by slavery. But oh, if a family of us white people feels bad about something, that warrants a book.

        What we need right now is not a war, but a million John Browns.