"...a man who made a fortune from selling black labor in the New World... "

Wow Chuck.
That's impressive.
Even for you.

Your Socialist hero drew his power from the wealth generated by a slave owner. A slave owner, Sir John Gladstone, William Gladstone's father, who owned so many slaves that after slavery was abolished in 1833, he received the largest of all compensation payments made by the Slave Compensation Commission, making him, by that measure, the greatest single slaver in the british empire.

What William Gladstone came from, the source of the wealth and capital he employed to gain and hold his power, speaks volumes about him, and his cause.

Your euphemism is showing... And it's hideous. You should cringe with shame.

Notably, as Chancellor, Gladstone made a speech on in 1862 supporting the Confederacy and Jefferson Davis saying that Davis had "made a nation". Gladstone did not consider slavery a problem.

Truely a Socialist Hero (tm)

Under Marxism, we're all slaves.

Unbridled/-fettered capitalism: it's a Death Sentence.
Democratic Socialism -- it's a damn good Living
only with fewer Pharaohs.

Just being Piketty:
"Piketty, correctly, did not see the curve as a universal law of capitalism, but as an anomaly in the 300-year history of political economy (between 1917 to 1947)"

should that be 30 year history?

Anyway you bit off a big one with this article.

I simple search can explain how the masses could have been in support of their king. The Church.

A brief history of how people communicated in the Middle Ages: by Laura Crombie.
https://www.historyextra.com

"The church communicated the successes (or setbacks) of their king to the populace: they required masses or procession for thanksgiving in light of a victory, and prayers and invocations for hopes of a success at the start of campaigns. This helped to build public support for wars and the taxes to pay for them"

also from same article:

"In 12th-century England, kings did not stay in London – rather, they travelled around their lands."

therefore he would have been known, and in contact with his kingdom. What you are calling the "sticks"

So there would be crowds in medieval Kingdoms, similar to dictatorships, not so much capitalist democracies and these crowds would be displaying patriotism not because they were capitalists but for only one reason, fear. Every country displays it.
Patriotism is just a display of fear.

The patriotism of the poor, when faced with an invading army: "nothing to gain, everything to lose." To their credit, the UK poor accepted this grim truth about the Spanish Armada, Napoleon, and Hitler. As for the poor of the Confederacy, I have no idea what they were thinking. Maybe it was this: "all that land was taken from the Cherokee and promised to all of us, but the rich slave-holders took the fertile bottomlands while we got the hardscrabble mountaintops and swamps. Let's fight to keep those rich plantations from being divided up between the freed Blacks while we'd still have to make do." The idiot's version of "nothing to gain, everything to lose."

Damn that movie was awful.

above -- "... rolling out some repellent antisemitism at the last minute.
He's a British Bernie Sanders."

You mean that olde Jew, Senator Sanders?
Yeah, he's quite the anti-Semite.
Oh wait -- you mean, he cannot BE a good Jew -- he doesn't
support Isreal's open-air Concentration Camp, aka Palestine.

If that makes me an anti-Semite
fuck off.

"The effort to implicate the most successful Jewish presidential candidate in American history in Jew-hatred is now well underway. What’s most striking about The Federalist, Examiner and Commentary articles is what they don’t say.

None offers a single example — from Sanders’ almost forty years in elected office — of him ever uttering an even arguably anti-Semitic sentence. That may seem a low bar. But it distinguishes Sanders from Corbyn, who in 2013 said that Zionists, despite 'having lived in this country for a very long time, probably all their lives, don’t understand English irony.'

It distinguishes Sanders even more dramatically from Donald Trump, who invokes anti-Semitic stereotypes more blatantly and more frequently than any American politician in modern memory."

https://forward.com/opinion/436814/of-course-theyre-calling-bernie-sanders-an-anti-semite-because-he-supports/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Main

"On Monday [last], the left-wing Jewish Currents news organization posted an op-ed by Senator Bernie Sanders on fighting anti-Semitism in America today. It speaks mainly to his progressive supporters in the Jewish community and articulates his progressive Zionist position on the Israeli occupation.

It is a call for American Jews to recognize that the threat of anti-Semitism in America comes mainly from the political right, as well as a subtle plea to his fellow American Jewish leftists not to embrace the false pieties of anti-Zionism.

Under the headline 'How to Fight Anti-Semitism,' which is also the title of Bari Weiss’s recent book on the same subject, Senator Sanders lays out his vision for fighting the evident increase in anti-Semitism in the United States. In brief, he sees anti-Semitism as not only a threat to Jews but 'to democratic governance itself.'”

'The anti-Semites who marched in Charlottesville don’t just hate Jews. They hate the idea of multiracial democracy,' Sanders writes."

https://forward.com/opinion/434663/bernie-sanders-oped-settles-it-you-can-be-both-progressive-and-zionist/

Yet Trump has jewish in laws and grandchildren, moved the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and has issued an executive order to combat anti-Semitism. Clearly channeling Hitler.

This is an interesting perspective...thank you for sharing...US reader.

kristofarian--I'm obviously not saying that Sanders and Corbyn share antisemitism, I am saying that they are both extreme Left candidates in it to lose it. They are there to divide up the Left and cause infighting. If Sanders had won the primary last presidential election I'm sure he would have come up with something easy and stupid to throw the election if he had been close to beating Trump. Like prizefighters on the take, they both work for the Mob.