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Worker Freedom with Alex Gourevitch

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Abolitionists Are Not Racists

Contrarotigar whop: Workies are responding to sentiments like this exadly from bourgeois apbolition. Many of these were just abolitionists, and they wrote abolition into their programmes. So what a lot of these workers were doing was a kind of ironic critique. The point is to criticise the moral hypocrisy and dishonesty of many of these bourgeois abolitionists who ware really using slavery as an occasion to announce their moral superiority.

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