The right to own slaves.
Why are you guys not spreading this?
Yeah, bullshit
I gjess that's one way to see it, and i find slavery absolutely abhorrent, but it's not a correct assumption to think the intention behind the Union engaging in war was solely driven by emancipating slavery. Perhaps you could say that was one of the most obvious motivators of the confederacy and i'd agree, but I think the civil war is misunderstood by a lot of people on the premise of it being a moral battle between the two sides
It wasn't about morality. It was strictly economic in nature and slavery played a major role in that economic battle.
" A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free," and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction."
this is the justification in the declaration of war
the fact that Robert Lee sided with them despite being anti-slavery markes him as the biggest cuck in history.
No it was an economic battle.
The economic issue being slave labor vs wage labor. Industrial Capitalist vs Plantation Gentry. Marx knew this and he wrote about it at length.
The civil war being about slaves does not necessarily make a moral argument.
everyone who fought on the side of the nazis is a criminal, perhaps with the possible exeption of the finnish since they were already at war
there were resistance movements in every occupied country
if you have the guts to out and fight with a gun to your back you have the guts to say fuck it and risk getting shot
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Not everyone has a contact with a resistance group. Most people, especially in those times, were disgusted by the idea of betraying their country and would ostracize or turn in anybody who didn't support the nation even when it did horrible things. And most Germans weren't really aware of everything the state was up to. If most soldiers in the modern day knew the kind of shit their countries did without telling them, they'd probably not be soldiers either.
This frames it better for me and agreed on all points, my original post kinda redundant now as I was referring to the moral sentiment behind when people refer to the war as being about slavery. It definitely was through an economic lens