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Marxist "Reconstruction" Part Two - Al Benson, Jr.


Back in 1929 Claude Bowers wrote an excellent book called The Tragic Era. It dealt with, state by state, exactly what the reconstructionist carpetbaggers did to the South during the "reconstruction" years. Folks, let me tell you, it is not an enjoyable read. There are times when you want to take the book and throw it at the wall. Interestingly enough, Claude Bowers was a Northerner who just tried to tell the truth about "reconstruction." For years his book was out of print. Someone recently told me it had been reprinted back in 1991 or thereabouts. Check Amazon.com on the Internet and see if you can find it.

Naturally, a book telling the truth about "reconstruction" could not be permitted to stand unchallenged. That paragon of Marxist virtue, W. E. B. DuBois, published Black Reconstruction in America. It has been described in leftist circles as a "monumental study" which portrayed "reconstruction" as "an idealistic effort to construct a democratic, interracial political order from the ashes of slavery, as well as a phase in a prolonged struggle between capital and labor for control of the South's economic resources." (Foner) There's a Marxist mouthful if ever there was one!

Then, in 1988, leftist "historian" Eric Foner came along with his new book Reconstruction--America's Unfinished Revolution. Naturally Foner hewed the same basic line that DuBois had, and he didn't think too much of Bowers' book either. Yet, even Foner was forced to admit, in the title of his book, that "reconstruction" was "an unfinished revolution." Of course you need to understand where Foner was coming from.


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