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 (DIR) Post #AZjLlZqWv0wvaHeNns by GrittyLipids@c.im
       2023-09-13T14:50:20Z
       
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       So in Confederation America (1780s) there was the Anarchiad, a satiric epic poem that for the most part is tedious because I’m not into that kind of literature.However, there are chunks of it motivated by extremely Confederation problems, like fighting over whether or not paper money should be accepted and/or states should be able to issue their own.@histodons @bookstodon #history#1780s https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/BAD5699.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext
       
 (DIR) Post #AZjLlbJdSHpE8qH8oC by GrittyLipids@c.im
       2023-09-13T14:50:21Z
       
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       @histodons @bookstodon Also there’s also some stuff about states not wanting to accept each other’s funbux and calling each other thieves, plus doing trade war shit to each other. On top of the existing history this helps highlight the extent to which the Confederation was a terrible idea. On the one hand nobody likes a tyrant, on the other hand you can’t run a country like this unless you want nonstop chaos and internecine violence.#history#Anarchiad#1780s
       
 (DIR) Post #AZjLlcPLOXzBWpxDLU by stephenwhq@mastodon.social
       2023-09-13T15:49:50Z
       
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       @GrittyLipids @histodons @bookstodon On one issue, the Confederate States were absolutely against states rights.  Slavery was mandated in every state, and every terretory controlled by the Confederacy, it could not be abolished by any State means, and full complicance with enforcing it was required. I think it emphasised only black people could be slabes. Everyone who says the Confederacy would have quietly got rid of slavery if left alone is talking out of their fundaments.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZjLldVPJUQivvnZR2 by GrittyLipids@c.im
       2023-09-13T14:50:21Z
       
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       @histodons @bookstodon It’s also significant that the racist traitors in the 1860s tried to do something like the Confederation (hence Confederacy) and immediately ran into a bunch of the same problems, like not being able to effectively fight a war against a more centralized enemy while also not having coherent national policy because your ideology demands decentralization.They learned nothing, which tracks.#history#Anarchiad#1780s