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In 2016, Lhoosk'uz Dené School celebrated the opening of their Pre-School Language Nest program. The Language Nest program immerses the children, ages 0-5 years old, in their Southern Carrier First Nation language. For four afternoons each week, this program allows parents and their children to interact in their traditional language with three fluent community Elders. The Elders and parents are members of the Language Nest School Committee.
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Students in the Elementary/ Middle School Program participate in a multigrade classroom. With an abundance of resources, curriculum is differentiated to meet all students needs at their ability levels. Language Arts and Math are supplemented with on-line programs. As cultural preservation is important to the Nation, Southern Carrier Language & Culture is embedded in many courses. Throughout the years, students have participated in skiing, swimming, and karate lessons, participated in ice fishing & moose meat cutting, and attended historical & cultural tours on the land (this program currently serves only elementary students.) Healthy breakfast, snack, and hot lunch are prepared for students everyday.
High School Distant Learning
Lhoosk'uz Dene School provides on-line Distant Learning for students who wish to remain in their community for their high school education. With a newly renovated computer room, which is equipped with new desktop computers, students can register for high school courses, work on assignments at their pace, and have teacher support, as needed. Administration has partnered with School District 28 (Quesnel) Aboriginal Education to provide Distant Learning to help the youth experience educational success.
Adult Upgrading Program
Lhoosk'uz Dené School Administration is currently working with School District 28 (Quesnel) Aboriginal Education to implement Adult Upgrading. (TBA)


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So, what's new today. I got an email from the German 'Federal Office for Information Security', Department "New Technologies". They are concerned (again!) that black holes at LHC are going to eat up the earth. Apparently that was triggered by this paper
Quantum character of black holes
Authors: Adam D. Helfer
- Black holes are extreme manifestations of general relativity, so one might hope that exotic quantum effects would be amplified in their vicinities, perhaps providing clues to quantum gravity. The commonly accepted treatment of quantum corrections to the physics around the holes, however, has provided only limited encouragement of this hope. The predicted corrections have been minor (for macroscopic holes): weak fluxes of low-energy thermal radiation which hardly disturb the classical structures of the holes. Here, I argue that this accepted treatment must be substantially revised. I show that when interactions among fields are taken into account (they were largely neglected in the earlier work) the picture that is drawn is very different. Not only low-energy radiation but also ultra-energetic quanta are produced in the gravitationally collapsing region. The energies of these quanta grow exponentially quickly, so that by the time the hole can be said to have formed, they have passed the Planck scale, at which quantum gravity must become dominant. The vicinities of black holes are windows on quantum gravity.
I don't see how that makes black holes more dangerous than before. I admit, we don't really know what to do at the Planck scale. But for these things to become dangerous it would take significantly lowered temperatures (in comparison to the semi-classical result) for several orders of magnitude above the Planck scale.
Plus, I don't see how the temperature should be lowerd. It seems to me, Helfer's paper points out that we can't trust the calculation, but it doesn't say the emission rate would be such extremely lowered.
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It seems there is constant discussion surrounding income inequality and what it means for the economy. In the U.S. the Gini coefficient, a measure of wealth distribution, has continually increased over the past several decades, signifying an ever-increasing disparity between the rich and the poor. In addition, we are still reeling from the recent global recession and unemployment remains relatively high.
Companies seeking lower operating costs have hired substantially lower-wage employees in developing countries than they could in the developed world. This draws valuable jobs away from qualified potential employees.
Over the past 20 years, the U.S. has lost approximately 5 million manufacturing jobs. Lower wages overseas draw companies to relocate jobs to developing countries, seemingly exacerbating the income inequality in America. However, this process inevitably creates a trade-off between fewer jobs in the U.S. and cheaper goods available to consumers. I know that many will not value the cheaper goods argument. But, mathematically, the advantages to our country do net out. Less-expensive products coming into the country are an equal counterbalance to lost manufacturing jobs as long as we can produce sustainable service jobs that are "knowledge-based."
I am sensitive to the individuals whose lost jobs negatively influence their families and devastate their communities. But we have to accept that many high-wage manufacturing jobs are not coming back to the U.S. It will continue to be a great challenge to create quality jobs for as many Americans as possible. The focus has to be on preparing people for the knowledge jobs that we can provide that have technical skills attached to them.
A recent New York Times editorial discussing globalization and potential trade agreements points out that the relative cost of clothing in the U.S. is down 8.2 percent since 1993, a definite byproduct of companies seeking lower production costs abroad. Clothes manufacturing is not coming back to the U.S. in a big way anytime soon.
What is fascinating is to watch wages in some countries, such as China, which have begun to rise. Many hope that this change will enable the Chinese to transition from investment-led and export-dependent growth to a more balanced, consumption-based economy. With higher wages, the laborers of the developing world will be able to consume more of the goods and service provided both from within and outside their countries.
More purchasing power is a good thing for the Chinese. According to China's National Bureau of Statistics, wages grew at 14 percent from 2011 to 2012 as cited in a Wall Street Journal article from last year.
This wage increase enables the development of a potentially robust middle class with growing purchasing power and thus improved quality of economic life. There has never, in the history of the world, been such a rapid decrease in poverty as we have seen in China since Mao died in 1976.
Increased wages and available jobs eliminate the necessity for those seeking employment to relocate or emigrate from developing economies. When local jobs are available with decent wages, families are more likely to remain intact and communities are strengthened by stability.
However, what comes next is still uncertain. Across the globe, so-called developing economies have reached a "cooling" period. GDP growth has leveled off and even fallen in some instances.
Some believe this new rate of growth is more sustainable. Others feel that if it does not increase soon that social unrest will erupt in several countries.
It is important for the U.S. to continually evaluate its role in the global labor market. The U.S. will likely fail to compete for the low-cost labor that global companies are seeking. Given that a certain level of inequality will persist, the challenge to successfully educate and innovate will be important to continued prosperity.
John Hoffmire is director of the Impact Bond Fund at Saïd Business School at Oxford University and directs the School of Business and Poverty at the Wisconsin School of Business at UW-Madison. He runs Progress Through Business, a nonprofit group promoting economic development. Adam Turville, Hoffmire's colleague at Progress Through Business, did the research for this article.
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Global Warming Good News
26 comments:
- biff said...
Of course the earth is actually cooling, not warming.
And it's projected to cool for some time to come.
A couple of questions:
If global warming was this unstoppable cataclysmic event of unprecedented warming, why do the "natural" variants so easily override it?
And to such a great extent.
I mean, if we were supposed to be well on our way to overheating by now, as predicted eight years ago, I could understand varying degrees of warming, some years a lot, some years neutral, some little, but generally constant warming (as the models no doubt attempted to factor in),
but since '98 its pretty much been cooler.
The past four months have been among the coldest worldwide, ever recorded. And now its supposed to be even getting colder?
It's funny, but as a kid, I remember getting sunburns, camping outside in the warm spring, on May long weekends.
This year's been the coldest, but I also can't remember the last time it was warm enough to camp outdoors on the May long. It's been some time.
Shouldn't my memory actually be the opposite?
Of course, my experience just accords with the actual data of temperature.
It's sad that so many people had bought into this AGW hysteria. - 8:10 AM
- Ti-Guy said...
Of course the earth is actually cooling, not warming.
What are you a "senior executive" of, Biff? - 8:46 AM
- John Cross said...
Biff: Here's an experiment for you to try. Go to the NASA GISS data (I can provide a link if you wish) and look at the Land Ocean Index. Take the Jan to Dec values for the years 1998 to 2007 (inclusive) and plot the results. Calculate a linear trend on the data. (Note, as an aside, I don't think that a 10 year trend is significant in terms of climate, but if we restrict ourselves to 1998 and onwards that is the best we can do).
I get a warming rate of +0.17C per decade which is pretty much what is predicted.
Don't take my word for it - but for god's sake, don't take anyone else's word either. Calculate the results, calculate the R2 data and then we can talk.
You also say that the past four months have been among the coldest ever recorded. Well, the coldest one that I see is January and in terms of cold it comes in at #39 out of 129. I thought you meant that the 4 averaged would produce something exceptional, but if you use Dec (of year N) and Jan, Feb and Mar (of your N+1) it works out to be the 14th warmest out of 128. Not what I would call exceptional cold.
In regards to the hysteria, this is my test of knowledge. I propose that there are three fundamental points at the heart of AGW.
1) we are responsible for ALL of the recent increase in CO2.
2) adding CO2 will enhance the longwave IR radiation on the earth's surface.
3) if you shine IR radiation on an object it will either warm or cool less quickly.
Which of these do you not agree with and why?
John - 9:14 AM
- biff said...
the cooling since '98 is now well documented, and as I understand it, generally accepted.
BCL actually posted a study on this site about the projected cooling (though it's supposed to heat right up again after that period...cough, cough).
As for your graphs, I'll refer you to a good site:
And your questions:
all three are highly speculative, and unproven.
Some would argue that since the actual data is now contradicting the predictive models premised on those three assumptions, that they are in fact not true.
Cheers. - 9:31 AM
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- toujoursdan said...
Debating climate change deniers is like debating young earth ("Flintstones" is a documentary) creationists.
- biff said...
I'll leave you with my own "prediction".
The next IPCC report will again come out with another downward revision (as it did the last time),
as the actual data fail to conform with the models.
And the AGW theory, like many scientific theories over the ages, will wane and be replaced by more definitive studies and science that relies on tradditional scientific methods rather than on computer modeling that can never predict something as complex as the climate, about which we still know very little.
Cheers. - 9:38 AM
- John Cross said...
Biff: As I said, please don't let others do your thinking for you. The information is there and you can check the my yourself. If you have a problem with my calculations then you can present it. If not then you are free to agree.
In regards to my three points, all are rock solid (provided you accept basic scientific principles such as basic quantum mechanics). However in order to simplify things lets look at the first one - we are responsible for all the current rise in CO2.
This is based on some observations which are quite well accepted by (almost) all parties. From oil / coal production and consumption numbers we can get a pretty good idea of the total amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere.
From the Mauna Loa record (and other more recent records) we can get a good idea of the total CO2 content of the atmosphere. From these two numbers we see that the total increase in CO2 is less than the total amount produced. This means that we are producing more than is showing up in the atmosphere. The only logical conclusion is that we are responsible for the current rise.
Let propose an analogy. Say the atmosphere is a back account but there a huge number of people who can put money in and take money out. We don't know who does what but we see that at the start of the year the balance is $100 and at the end of the year it is $103. We know we put in $7 through the year. What would be the balance if we had not put in our $7?.
Finally I note that you appear to have no comment on my analysis that shows that he last 4 months were not among the coldest on record. Does that mean you are retracting your statement?
John - 9:55 AM
- Ti-Guy said...
Does that mean you are retracting your statement?
Yeah, right. Global Cooling will happen before Biff ever retracts anything. He's been wrong about everything he's predicted for the last few years and that's not including all the counter-factual assertions he made while sock-puppetting.
We really need better science on what's motivating this demographic to be not only ignorant, but aggressively so and proud of it. I'd be relieve to find out it's simply the result of all the troll welfare vested interest are doling out, but some people seem to be actually enjoying it and doing it out of "love" more than anything else. Like extinguishing the Enlightenment is their higher calling or something.
Maybe Biff's just bored being a "senior executive" at his call centre, and passes the time this way?
Maybe it's the effect of Bisphenol-A during their gestation? - 12:31 PM
- biff said...
far from letting others do the thinking for me, my judgments are my own, based on common sense logic, reason, and the desire to see things for what they really are, as opposed to what I want them to be.
one two part question, that goes to the very heart of decisions this nation faces today:
Do you believe Canada should take steps to curb AGW, and why?
How about, instead of us parrying sites with competing statistics we address this with good old fashioned logic and reason.
do we take steps, and why? - 12:44 PM
- biff said...
I'll start it off:
Let's begin with the assumption that AGW is real (for the sake of argument of course).
Canada's global contribution to emissions is 2% (though its now likely much less given the increase output from China, India, ect going on as we speak...but for the sake of argument lets go with 2%).
In raw numbers that's a .02.
A few follow up questions from that:
Is there any decrease in output from Canada which could materially affect world AGW emissions?
Let's say we could limit total output by 20% tomorrow (an massive feat which would likely cause incredible economic disruption).
Let's work that through: We mandate that all cars must immediatly drive 20% less. Good's will cost drastically more (as they require transportation), homes will be required to "heat ration" in the winter, manufacturing plants shut down 20% of the time ect.
Let's take all that.
Now lets do the math.
.02 x .2 = .004 (less than one half of one percent)
Our massive sacrifice would not even cover the increased output caused by other developing nations, let alone have any material impact.
Simple math tells us that this entire debate/movement, is therefore about the APPEARANCE of stopping AGW, with the near certain knowlege that even drastic steps will be effectively meaningless.
In fact, its the appearance of "saving the world" and all the corresponding benefits one seeks to gain from such a movement that gives this movement its life blood.
Now we can come full circle. It is precisely these benefits, subtle and otherwise, which was behind the calculus built into the hockey stick model, which resulted in a "hockey stick" curve to result, with even random numbers being inserted into the model (that's right, it was shown that ANY number put into the model that produced the hockey stick graph would result in that shape - in other words, it was CONCLUSION driven).
But I digress:
John, what of the above do you disagree with? - 1:01 PM
- John Cross said...
Biff: In your very first post you made some specific claims. You stated that:
1) The earth is actually cooling.
I took the trouble to provide a statistical analysis that shows it is not cooling!
2) The last 4 months were among the coldest ever recorded.
I also showed that in fact the average of the last 4 months compared to the average of other identical times actually ranks as the 14th warmest (out of 128).
You are now trying to change the argument to one that nobody has made. Your initial comment contained nothing about CO2 production or solutions to AGW.
So, once again are you going to defend your claims or are you going to retract them? I am sorry, there is no third option.
John - 1:17 PM
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- Ti-Guy said...
Biff...just how much medication and which ones do you have to take to make these incessant (and retarded) inquisitions of yours enjoyable for you?
.02 x .2 = .004 (less than one half of one percent)
Heh. I love how he "showed work" here. Very impressive. Scientilicious, in fact.
Biff, what are you "a senior executive" of? - 1:38 PM
- biff said...
I also find it interesting that you (and seemingly all proponents of "government action" on AGW) don't really want to discuss the real issue:
The entire debate is about our feelings, and not real results. - 1:45 PM
- biff said...
"Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming
Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.
No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.
A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out most of the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down. "
The link, which links to all the official sources here:
http://tinyurl.com/yq2hpw - 1:52 PM
- biff said...
the inside scoop (inside being from the head of the IPCC..read below):
Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril.
Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth stillwarming?"
She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years."
Duffy: "Is this a matter of any controversy?"
Marohasy: "Actually, no. The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued ... This is not what you'd expect, as I said, because if carbon dioxide is driving temperature then you'd expect that, given carbon dioxide levels have been continuing to increase, temperatures should be going up ... So (it's) very unexpected, not something that's being discussed. It should be being discussed, though, because it's very significant."
Duffy: "It's not only that it's not discussed. We never hear it, do we? Whenever there's any sort of weather event that can be linked into the global warming orthodoxy, it's put on the front page. But a fact like that, which is that global warming stopped a decade ago, is virtually never reported, which is extraordinary."
Duffy then turned to the question of how the proponents of the greenhouse gas hypothesis deal with data that doesn't support their case. "People like Kevin Rudd and Ross Garnaut are speaking as though the Earth is still warming at an alarming rate, but what is the argument from the other side? What would people associated with the IPCC say to explain the (temperature) dip?"
Marohasy: "Well, the head of the IPCC has suggested natural factors are compensating for the increasing carbon dioxide levels and I guess, to some extent, that's what sceptics have been saying for some time: that, yes, carbon dioxide will give you some warming but there are a whole lot of other factors that may compensate or that may augment the warming from elevated levels of carbon dioxide.
"There's been a lot of talk about the impact of the sun and that maybe we're going to go through or are entering a period of less intense solar activity and this could be contributing to the current cooling."
Duffy: "Can you tell us about NASA's Aqua satellite, because I understand some of the data we're now getting is quite important in our understanding of how climate works?"
Marohasy: "That's right. The satellite was only launched in 2002 and it enabled the collection of data, not just on temperature but also on cloud formation and water vapour. What all the climate models suggest is that, when you've got warming from additional carbon dioxide, this will result in increased water vapour, so you're going to get a positive feedback. That's what the models have been indicating. What this great data from the NASA Aqua satellite ... (is) actually showing is just the opposite, that with a little bit of warming, weather processes are compensating, so they're actually limiting the greenhouse effect and you're getting a negative rather than a positive feedback."
Duffy: "The climate is actually, in one way anyway, more robust than was assumed in the climate models?"
Marohasy: "That's right ... These findings actually aren't being disputed by the meteorological community. They're having trouble digesting the findings, they're acknowledging the findings, they're acknowledging that the data from NASA's Aqua satellite is not how the models predict, and I think they're about to recognise that the models really do need to be overhauled and that when they are overhauled they will probably show greatly reduced future warming projected as a consequence of carbon dioxide."
Duffy: "From what you're saying, it sounds like the implications of this could beconsiderable ..."
Marohasy: "That's right, very much so. The policy implications are enormous. The meteorological community at the moment is really just coming to terms with the output from this NASA Aqua satellite and (climate scientist) Roy Spencer's interpretation of them. His work is published, his work is accepted, but I think people are still in shock at this point."
I'll take their word over yours, John, no offence.
Cheers - 2:03 PM
- John Cross said...
Biff: I also find it interesting that you post things as facts and then when someone disagrees with you, instead of defending or retracting you change the topic. If you were really interested in discussing solutions, why did you not start there.
If you are not prepared to discuss a topic that you brought up, why should anyone engage in other discussions with you?
John - 2:04 PM
- biff said...
I take it the last comment was before I linked (and quoted) a highly reputable source,
saying a head of the IPCC
agrees with me
No apologies necessary,
it's all in good spirit.
Cheers. - 2:09 PM
- Dante said...
Here's an experiment for you to try. Go to the NASA GISS data (I can provide a link if you wish) and look at the Land Ocean Index. Take the Jan to Dec values for the years 1998 to 2007 (inclusive) and plot the results
Better be quick and reference a date due to Nasa's tendency to revise historical data. You'll need a common point of reference.
By pushing such an example, you show yourself to be either dishonest or unaware of the current controversy regarding Nasa numbers.
Climate audit has already caught their bullshit a few times. - 2:20 PM
- biff said...
Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Professor Emeritus Geology, Western Washington
University, author of 8 books, 150 journal publications with focus on
geomorphology; glacial geology; Pleistocene geochronology; environmental
and engineering geology.
"CBS-TV, 60 Minutes, Burlington, Washington
March 30, 2008
QUOTE: "The time of maximum CO2 emissions started in 1945 and
temperatures should have shot up, but we cooled off. That's an
But, the things he [Gore] does, the things he says, are so outrageous, I
don't forgive him anymore. For example, when he says things like 'people
like me are right in there with the flat earth theory'. He says the
debate is over. The debate is not over-it's just getting started. There's
a huge uproar in the scientific world because in the last ten years, the
climate has cooled slightly, but the media won't tell you that. This
year is a big downturn, you can't miss it. Global warming simply ended
in 1998, but the public doesn't know it.
KLC: I could draw it myself, you have a peak in '98 and it's been flat
or declining since then. The trend depends on where you start. They love
starting in 1850.
DJE: That doesn't work because there are 30-year cycles. The chairman of
the IPCC admits we've had global cooling for at least eight years, and
there are sources on the Internet, you've probably seen them, that show
the IPCC folks are panicking.
KLC: Talk about an inconvenient fact.
DJE: On the temperature curve, 1998 was the high point, and this year,
we've cooled dramatically. It's been kind of flat for ten years, sort of
a plateau, but if you take 1998 as your starting point, it's down
slightly, not soaring as predicted by IPCC.
KLC: Playing the devil's advocate, if you start in the early 90's, you
would still have a positive trend.
DJE: If you want to be really honest about this, the curve should rise
from 1977 and end after 1998. It depends on what you want to show and
how you want to filter it. You can filter it with a two-year average, a
five-year average, or over whatever period you want and you'll get a
differently-shaped curve. The point is, it has not gotten warmer since
1998; it has not continued to warm in the last ten years." - 2:22 PM
- John Cross said...
Biff: I did post my last comment before I read your comment, unfortunately it changes nothing. If you will please read what I wrote in my initial reply to you I said but for God's sake, don't take anyone else's word either.
What have you gone and done now - you have taken someone else's word for it instead of thinking about it and working it out on your own. Again, I offer to link to the numbers so you could check my work.
So, you don't get an apology but instead the opportunity for something far more valuable - a chance to actually do some of your own thinking.
John - 2:25 PM
- biff said...
I could give you many more quotes and links,
but that's a lot of personal attacks for folks here to cover, espcially the esteemed author and scientist above (you'll need to spew extra venom in his direction, given his credentials..not referring to you John BTW, appreciate your civility).
so I'll leave it at the above.
Cheers. - 2:26 PM
- biff said...
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- Ti-Guy said...
I take it the last comment was before I linked (and quoted) a highly reputable source, saying a head of the IPCC agrees with me
No apologies necessary, it's all in good spirit. Cheers.
(edited to remove all the idiotic hard returns).
This is classic Biff. Hijack a discussion, cut and paste a variety of unsourced material (meaning whatever the content the cut and paste is itself unsourced, or missing necessary context or is not published research material), claim he's been proved correct and then assert it's all been fun. A more practiced liar you'll never meet And practiced lying and deception is course, "civil."
John Cross...I'm not sure if you're aware of the years-long history of Biff's sock-puppeting and trolling of progressive blogs to derail discussions and amplify the pseudo-science underlying AGW denialism.
Good thing this topic was just a joke anyway, although Biff's dreary lying always manages to suck the fun out of everything.
I can't wait until I finally track him down; his stuffed head will look sterling mounted in my den. - 2:46 PM
- John Cross said...
Biff: Thanks for another quote, but I am afraid that all the quotes won't change the statistics. They are there for you or anyone to calculate. Just run the numbers and you can see for yourself.
Ti-Guy: From Biff's responses (no offense Biff) I suspect you are correct. Certainly his actions here would imply such. But I live in hope that perhaps someone else reading this will do the calculations for themselves.
John - 11:08 PM


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With recent tragic event bringing the threat of fascist ideas and organizations into front view, we look back on anarchism as a direct challenge to these ideas.
People associated with class struggle anarchism, anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism, and the like, love to say that anarchism really is a specific iteration of worker and class politics with a libertarian, anti-oppression edge. They hate to answer with more poetic renditions of what anarchism is, if only to be dumped into the "lifestyle" camp with post-leftists and primitivists. The reality is that it is as much a mindset and set of values as it is a specific politic coming out of the split in the IWA between Marx and Bakunin. The anarchist idea is one that goes to the heart of authority, challenging its illegitimacy and all forms of social hierarchy and oppression. In this way anarchism is fundamentally opposed to all forms of social stratification and bigotry, looking not just at its independent and personal forms, but also the social systems that put prejudice into systemic practice. Not only are we against racism, but also against institutional white supremacy. Not just opposed to sexism, but looking to smash patriarchy. Abhorred by homophobia, but also looking to overthrow heterosexist hegemony. Anarchism is the core urge to throw off the shackles of control, to share resources and community in equality, and to get rid of our masters politically, spiritually, and socially. The key values then return us to the most direct, and unmediated forms of social organization based on direct democracy, direct action, mutual aid, and solidarity. These tools are today used as forms of resistance and perseverance, but only through struggle will we form the basic social structures of a post-revolutionary society.
It is in every feature we see anarchism as the mirror opposite of fascism, the direct negation of everything it stands for. In this way anarchism, in practice, is anti-fascism, hopefully to be realized in a post-revolutionary society as well as an improvement to our current world.
From Marx to Total Liberation
Traditionally, Marxism is usually associated as the primary force standing at odds with fascism. Both the far right and the conventional far left enjoy this narrative as it gives them both legitimacy. For Marxists, it helps them draw on their past to give ever greater meaning to their own political legacy. The same is true of fascists, who often use the spread of Bolshevism as a historical double back to justify the excesses of interwar European fascist states. Marxism existed, as a revolutionary force that took their assumed base, the working class, and subverted what the aristocracy and ruling class thought should be a perpetual underclass. One of fascism's core ideals, as presented by Mussolini, is "class collaboration," which essentially means that all current classes are necessary. For this to be the case then the working class must gladly serve their role, as must their overseers in the ruling class. Class warfare then pulls as the threads of the caste system, where by there is a clear social hierarchy and the peasants and workers are not seen as capable of ruling society. Communism was then a counter agent, often associated with Jews, and thought of as the metastasized cancer of Western Civilization. This worked really well with communism existing on the far left of the political spectrum and fascism on the far right to create antagonisms, but no political distinction is this simple.
The post-WWII fascist and leftist narratives both moved based orthodox Marxism in similar ways. Today, fascists vaguely blame what they call "cultural Marxism," a term only they use to describe socially left aspects of culture. One of the core anti-Semitic myths is that the Frankfurt School, which produced culturally focused radicals like Theodore Adorno, was secretly both an organization for Jewish ethnic interests and were so successfully subversive that their ideas have now begun to dominate not just the left, but the subconscious of Western culture as a whole. The idea here is then that the ideas of the Frankfurt School were secretly cooked up by Jewish intellectuals to create decadence, perversion, and relativism in otherwise straight and upright white men, and they are doing this to protect Jews from anti-Semitism. If they can destroy the sovereignty of white civilization by undermining their conservative religious values and then debasing their racial hegemony with third-world immigration of people of color, they can then subvert the white population's aversion to the Jews as a parasitic class. Neatly put: they create dangerous ideas to destroy white people so that they will be safe and on top. While this idea sounds so insane as to need little denouncement, its position as an Illuminati type conspiracy theory has given it repeated resurgence in the Internet message-board collective basement of the far right. Not only does it make outrageous claims that could never be proven and have no ability to be true, but it fundamentally misses any of the key concepts, historical trajectory, and antagonisms of the Frankfurt School. What is more important, it really has bypassed the key role that anarchism has made as both its adversary and its ideological polar opposite.
Over many of the historic, and more recent, clashes with fascism, anarchism has played an incredibly key role in its defeat. This comes in part because of the history of anarchist movements erupting during the same crisis that often breeds reactionary movements, but also because it has a unique interest in seeing fascism smashed.
Today many are pointing out that anarchism, though often vaguely practiced and understood in first-world countries, has become the leading form of left or post-left political ideology. As Andrej Grubacic and David Graeber so eloquently state in Anarchism, or the Revolutionary Movement of the Twenty-First Century:
"It is becoming increasingly clear that the age of revolutions is not over. It's becoming equally clear that the global revolutionary movement in the twenty first century will be one that traces its origins less to the tradition of Marxism, or even of socialism narrowly defined, but of anarchism. Everywhere from Eastern Europe to Argentina, from Seattle to Bombay, anarchist ideas and principles are generating new radical dreams and visions. Often their exponents do not call themselves "anarchists". There are a host of other names: autonomism, anti-authoritarianism, horizontality, Zapatismo, direct democracy… Still, everywhere one finds the same core principles: decentralization, voluntary association, mutual aid, the network model, and above all, the rejection of any idea that the end justifies the means, let alone that the business of a revolutionary is to seize state power and then begin imposing one's vision at the point of a gun." (1)
There have been scores of volumes as to why anarchism has both diversified and been popularized from the 1980s onward, all of which we could never do justice here, but we have to see that this anarchist spirit is what is driving the movements of today. From the anti-globalization protests to mobilizations against the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. From the massive Occupy movement to the uprisings of Black Lives Matter, the Marxist parties that once led America to the brink of revolution are almost completely irrelevant, and instead the anarchist spirit is spreading as the fundamental way that we can create a new world. The obvious reasons here is that the anarchist project is both always evolving and always headed to the root of the issue. It doesn't just seek to just overthrow capitalism and the state, but all forms of hierarchy and oppression. This means that it is a constant ongoing process, and that it has the ability to evolve and change according to the personalities and cultures of those practicing. It is not steeped in rigidity like most determinism-infused Marxism, and its different strands, such as syndicalism, can act as complimentary strategic points rather than limiting ideological dogmas.
The other reality is that most people have already seen revolutionary Marxism, at least of the Leninist party variety, as an incredible failure. The most powerful "movement for liberation" became the most genocidal tyranny of the 20th century. It is this resulting beauracratic State Capitalist failure that almost destroyed the revolutionary left, and there are few who are willing to do Trotskyist backflips in logic to pretend that somehow it will be different next time. What we are left with is one revolutionary trajectory that is, though diversified, the only place we have to go to create a transformative alternative to the waves of reaction.
What Political Spectrum?
For any part of the anarchist vision to be made reality, from the local to the post-revolutionary, it requires a loss of fascism in equal measure. Every key element of anarchism sees fascism as its inverse, meaning that the goals can never exist simultaneously. While both the left-right paradigm and most criticisms of that paradigm are weak and not withstanding under scrutiny, one of the better of these would be the structure Nolan Chart, though we will need to redefine which corner each one has. We need to say upfront that this still does not accurately represent the role we see of anarchism in the political, but for discussion's sake it helps to map out its relationship to other political tropes.
A more correct version of this chart might have Marxism and Liberalism in direct opposition while anarchism and fascism are in opposite corner as well. Anarchism is then seen as the mix of socialism and autonomy, which could also be interpreted purely as one of social freedom and social equality. By exact parallels, fascism is socially conservative and represents a strong state. The more apt description would be against equality and freedom or democracy. It would be more accurate to actually just put anarchism and fascisms at the very top and bottom corners, respectively, since they display the core extremes as represented here. The polarities would be extreme state communism on the far left, free-market minarchism on the far right, anarchism at the top and fascism at the bottom. This would then represent fascisms disavowal of free-market capitalism, but its respect for things like essential property rights and the right of private corporations over market sectors. From here you can go through and take specific ideological manifestations and place them accordingly, even though anarchism is ever changing and diverse enough to never fully be positioned on any political spectrum.
So, in this context, what is anarchism?
The simplest answer is a libertarian form of communism, but this really misses the core values at the center. Anarchism seeks to liberate us from oppressive systems of illegitimate authority and hierarchy, with the actors of this being the oppressed classes. In terms of economics, this means the working class taking the means of production in a form of stateless communism that is founded on the necessity of freedom and individual identity. It also means the confrontation of existing forms of social oppression, as well as the ongoing process of challenging new forms and subverting oppression whenever it comes up. The foundation then is that a free and healthy society is one that is fully socially and economically equal, where differences between people are no longer expressed through hierarchy, and an ongoing process of living lives with more direct control and less mediation is key. Anarchists believe that race, gender, and other identities as social constructs, as well as nation states that must be abolished in favor of internationalism.
In direct contrast, fascism and related ideologies is best expressed by the title of Tomislav Sunic's book on the European New Right, 'Against Democracy and Equality.' They agree with radical traditionalist mystic Julius Evola when see stated that society is most healthy when stratified. They are against democracy, as they don't see the masses as having the ability to rule. They are in favor of an upper controlling elite with aristocratic interests, as they believe that there is inherently a class best meant to rule. They believe in the pure rule of genetics over identity, where things like racial ethnicity as having a determining factor over internal qualities like temperament and intelligence. They believe in nationalism, where a set people have interests in each other rather than the rest of society. They are often also opposed to capitalism, but this is because they capitalism creates too much equality and takes the importance away from nation and race. They instead want to purposely re-enforce social stratification and separation instead of just allowing some measure of this to happen on its own, as is the neoliberal situation. They may or may not support totalitarian state measures, but they always support a form of social authoritarianism where a society has strict social mores set by elites whose interest is maintaining a social order.
The term fascism itself is rarely going to be used in these circles, as it has been permanently marred with its association with the Holocaust of the Third Reich. This new brand of the far right is also hardly historical re-enactors as they have modernized the ideas that birthed the interwar movements. The fascism of Italy, Germany, Romania, Austria, and Spain were all somewhat unique in structure, and there were hundreds of movements and ideologues that you never heard of because their version of these essential fascist ideas did not end up taking state power. Today the far right likes to separate itself from 'fascism,' which it sees as failed movements of the Second World War. Instead it has rebranded its ideas and modernized its goals and political programs, but the core ideas and values remain the same.
A great example of this rebranding has come from Counter Currents publisher Greg Johnson, who has fashioned himself a sort of "intellectual" of this far right brand. His publishing house, which is mainly made up of republishing tomes by people like Savitri Devie and Jonathan Bowden, has tried to establish a right-wing intellectual current similar to what they have in France. What he is calling the North American New Right, which is essentially just him publishing what he can after having to leave the Occidental Observer, is established on taking the core values of fascism away from its archaic political manifestations (2). As he laments in his key essay "New Right vs. Old Right," he sees it as an important re-establishment of right-wing principles that only a fascist movement can.
"The true Right, in both its Old and New versions, is founded on the rejection of human equality as a fact and as a norm. The true right embraces the idea that mankind is and ought to be unequal, i.e., differentiated. Men are different from women. Adults are different from children. The wise are different from the foolish, the smart from the stupid, the strong from the weak, the beautiful from the ugly. We are differentiated by race, history, language, religion, nation, tribe, and culture. These differences matter, and because they matter, all of life is governed by real hierarchies of fact and value, not by the chimera of equality. The true right rejects egalitarianism root and branch. The true right has three species: traditional society, the Old Right, and the New Right. Every traditional society known to man is inegalitarian. All forms of traditional society have been destroyed—or are in the process of being destroyed—by modern, egalitarian, mass society. For our purposes, the Old Right means Fascism, National Socialism, and other national-populist movements, which are the pre-eminent attempts to restore traditional hierarchical social forms within the context of modernity. Fascism and National Socialism were not merely reactionary, rear-guard resistances to modern egalitarianism by partisans of corrupt hierarchies. They represented a genuinely revolutionary impetus to restore vital, archaic, hierarchical values within the context of modern science, technology, and mass society. Our ideal is a hierarchical society free of exploitation and injustice because the sole justification of political inequality is the common good of the body politic, not the factional good of the ruling stratum. So how does the New Right differ from Fascism and National Socialism? This is a vital question, because of the intense stigmas attached to these movements since the Second World War. The North American New Right, like the European New Right, is founded on the rejection of Fascist and National Socialist party politics, totalitarianism, terrorism, imperialism, and genocide." (2)
This sums up the breadth of the movements in general. The coloring of each of these subsets tends to take on many of the aesthetics from which it is dissenting. The Traditionalist Youth Network, White Student Union, and Youth for Western Civilization use the grassroots student-organizing model, and often look more like more confrontational brown-shirts. The National Policy Institute, American Renaissance, Radix Journal, Occidental Quarterly, and VDare, when it applies, often looks and sounds more like the paleoconservative splits from the Republican Party. Institute for Historical Review, Mankind Quarterly, Counter Currents, and many others put on the vein of academic intellectualism. All of these share key ideas and social visions, while they rarely use the term "fascist" to describe themselves.
In many ways, these far-right movements are an effort to create a coherent right wing that is in opposition to the fractured ideologies of the mainstream right. They're assessment of the lack of ideological consistency and true opposition to the left's values is correct, and they instead want to develop something that has an "entirely different starting point," as Richard Spencer of the National Policy Institute and Radix Journal likes to say. What you will notice is that there is often a similar estimation of contemporary politics between anarchists and those on the far right in as much as the far right is completely willing to accept their own racism sexism, and homophobia, and is completely willing to estimate the issues with capitalism, globalism, and contemporary party politics in ways that are real and meaningful. The difference is where they fall on these things, not in the way that they interpret them. Many of the accusations that they throw at the far left, like the desire to destroy white hegemony and the nation state, are entirely valid and correct. The difference is that the left sees them as a positive while the right sees them as apocalyptic.
You can look at a number of social forms and goals and assign a sort of positive preference from anarchists and direct opposition from fascists. Equality, pervasive democracy, multiculturalism, a sexually liberated and diverse society, and the destruction of gender roles, are all core ideological principles of the anarchist project, as well as direct fighting points for fascists to target. Anarchism, as the furthest political point away from fascism, actually takes the elements that fascism abhors and finds its political footing on the most extreme version of that. So, fascism openly opposes democracy because it violates their self-avowed elitism. Anarchists, on the other hand, support direct democracy, which intends to hand the democratic process even more directly to the people. The far right strongly opposes equality seeing that people are not made that way. Anarchism goes one further and opposes every single form of hierarchy, from political structures to social relations.
It is in this direct contrast that we find the fundamental point about the battle between the two polar opposites: to fight for anarchism is to be implicitly anti-fascist. Success in the revolutionary anarchist sense would be the negation of every fascist goal so successfully that you create the purest form of their opposition. You cannot cohabitate with the far right since their ideological principles would mean to undermine every single element you look for, whether it is in projects for survival in the current world or projects that are for revolutionary implementation.
The only way that anarchists can win is if fascists lose in every conceivable way.
Introduction to Civil War
The history of modern revolutions is often the history of ideological civil wars where different sides represent ideological oppositions. Competing political factions vie for control, and we see that this point of pressure can often force the more extreme polarities of the political spectrum to mark these different parties. Though this doesn't break down into the clean "anarchist vs. fascist" dichotomy, it does tend to take on a separation between the left and the right based on values, even if the political ideas are not always so well defined.
If we look to the 1917 Russian Revolution we see a history where the Menshevik majority, the direct-action focused Narodniks, and the anarchist populations heavily infiltrated the left insurrection. These factions headed even more to the left as the Soviets headed towards October, and the "white" forces doubled down on the traditional hierarchies of the Czar. While the more conservative Bolshevik's ended up dominating the other factions and eventually purging them from the early days of Soviet Russia, there was a clear ideological split that affected the populations. Many people in the peasantry and working class shifted dramatically to a reactionary pro-Czarist position, often times defending what little privilege they still had.
The example of the Spanish Revolution of 1936 is possibly the most telling example of this ideological civil war in the 20th Century. The coup in 1936 from General Francisco Franco, with the support of the nationalist Fallange party and financial backing from Germany and Italy, overthrew the newly formed republic. Engaging in the civil war for the republic took as a coalition with the Abraham Lincoln brigade being the notable army of volunteers, many from the United States. The CNT, which had been directly clashing with Fallange forces for several years prior, began collectivizing land and industries into what many call the most comprehensive Anarchist social revolution in history. With the support of Stalin back communist forces they took on the fascist insurgency, only to have the Soviet armies turn on them to sell them out to state forces. This eventually weakened the revolution and allowed for Franco's victory, but it saw as the countries political divides became a sharp line for how Spain was to end up. Catalonia ended up as the marker of Anarchist revolutionary forces against the fascist armies coming from the south, supported by a broad coalition of ideological forces that had some differences yet remained in unity on their fundamental values. (3) This period does not just mark anarchism's position in challenge to European fascism, but really its most profound modern growth in theory and practice. The Spanish Revolution defined anarchism until the New Left, and still overshadows every current that has come later. It is through anti-fascist struggle it was able to realize the most key parts of a community transformation.
In the modern context, the street battles that have marked anti-fascism have been marked by movements such as Anti-Fascist Action and Anti-Racist Action, as well as hundreds of groups taking on similar positions and strategies. The primary component here is "physical resistance," which has been an important point in shutting down the kind of resurgent nationalism. The conflicts have raged in European countries most apparently, which has a longer history of organized fascist currents, but in the U.S. this often has come into clashes with the KKK, skinhead gangs, and now many of the intellectual and culturally "alternative" fascist groups. The foundation of these movements has been on anarchist participation, often with ties to anarchist cultural and art subcultures, but always drawing from an anarchist tradition towards direct action problem solving. While non-violence remains a trend inside anarchist circles, it is the more nuanced "anti-violence" position that sees self-defense and removing racist elements as a primary vessel to actually rid a community of violence in the macro sense.
No Ideology Beyond Ideology
The modern conception of radical politics has seen a lot of issues in recent years as fragmented ideologies that lack full political analysis have dominated many conversations. Many have actually made calls for peace between the radical right and left based on the fact that they share mutual interest in the abolition of our current state and economic system, and that both are considered enemy terrorists of the state in the post-9/11 security infrastructure. The majority of these calls are coming directly from the right itself, which has a vested interested in blurring the lines between their ideological differences. There has even been a strong push on the right to absorb many of the radical ideas of anarchists, which often times appear outside the current left-right spectrum because anarchists hold such a fundamental critique of all elements of the current socio-political order.
The two forms this tends to take are with so called National Anarchism and Anarcho-Capitalism. Anarcho-Capitalism is one that many have encountered for years, which was proposed by Murray Rothbard in the 1980s as a way of co-opting and subverting their enemies on the left. While they utilize much of the libertarian language we know from individualist anarchism, the New Left, and even some legitimate left sources, they instead focus on absolving any state protections against unfettered capitalism. This is essentially tyranny to the purest degree, maintaining the coercive elements of capitalism without any of the state concessions that organizers have fought for, such as labor and housing restrictions. Many on the American libertarian side have created narratives about how this deregulated capitalism would actually break up monopoly and create diversified wealth, but this is based on pseudoscientific understandings of free market capitalism. In general, they have close associations with paleoconservatives and others on the fringes of the right that consort with racialist factions.
The first of these two is one of the more bizarre cults of syncretic paleogenisis that has come in recent years. Essentially coined by former National Front organizer Troy Southgate, National Anarchism draws on many of the anti-capitalist notions of Third Positionism to essentially create a "tribalist" ideology. This calls for a form of "pan-Anarchism" where by small tribal communities based on affinity replace the current associated order. Instead of being federated in a standardized anarchist conception, these communities would have only minor interaction and trade and could provide their own criteria for membership. In the rhetoric of the National Anarchists you will find that race and ethnicity is the defining characteristic they work with, and there is a strong anti-Semitic and anti-Feminist strain running through all of it. Because of its strange use of left wing imagery and social structures, it has gone under the radar for many anti-fascists until recently. They also often times put themselves as being anti-fascist as well, but their ideological framework still holds the exact same values about hierarchy, tradition, race, gender, and authority that even the most state oriented fascists do. Concepts like "racial holy war" still permeate their literature, as does this notion about the purity of "natural divisions" between peoples. Just being anti-statist does not make you an anarchist or give enough to make them allies.
The anti-statism of anarchism comes in the fact that the state is coercive and institutionalized violence in support of the current classes, both economically and socially. It is designed as a method for stratifying society through the use of force and, as a social form, will always do this. Anarchists oppose the state because of their opposition to this illegitimate authority and hierarchy, but not just because it is a dominant institution. Anarchists do not seek to abolish the state because it penalizes white nationalists or because it regulates the banking industry. There is a fundamental value set that drives this anti-statism.
If there is to be a long-term vision of success for anarchism then it has to be implicitly anti-fascist because it represents the open advocacy of every single element of society that anarchists seek to abolish. As we fight for different intersecting elements in society we need to see where those threats are, both from the immediate system and from the organized forces of reaction that will be challenging these victories on some fundamental level. Every victory that that is struck directly against fascism is a victory for the anarchist project since it undermines the enemies of these goals since anarchist values cannot be fully successful with any organized fascist presence.
From the White Working Class
We also must understand that the same popular classes for revolution are recruited from in both the far right and left, and we need to understand the split in consciousness that takes place in the white working class. Noel Ignatiev, known for his seminal book How the Irish Became White, writes as a part of the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation that anarchist struggle will also be paired on the flip side by a more militant fascist movement as the two are birthed out of the same forms of crisis.
"Alongside class struggle, it is to be expected that militant white-supremacist movements with anti-capitalist slogans would grow among the poorest and most alienated sectors of white society. The fascists are the vanguard of the white race; however, the big problem right now is not the white vanguard, but the white mainstream. Any anti-fascist struggle that does not confront the state reinforces the institutions that provide the seedbed for fascism. Moreover, every time the fascists are able to depict their opponents as defenders of the existing system, or mere reformers, they gain support among those whites that believe that nothing less than a total change is worth fighting for. An anti-fascist counter-rally where people gather to hear speeches, chant slogans, and shake their fists in rage is a display of impotence, and the more people who attend, the more they reveal their futility. Fascism and white supremacy will only be defeated by a movement aimed at building a new world. It is not enough to declare this commitment abstractly, by waving the red or black flag; it must be expressed in the content and forms of the struggle itself. How to do that is no easy question. But it is the question of the hour." (4)
What is implicit here is that the most successful anti-fascist movement is to have a successful anarchist movement that is based more in material goals and movements than ideological baggage. The best fighting is going to be done on the ground and by creating a real viable alternative to racialism.
For the Sake of the Radical
The implicit clash between fascism and anarchism is one of a myriad of reasons that organized anti-fascism is an important point of struggle. Fascists try to co-opt the idea of "radicalism" that the revolutionary left needs to develop a comprehensive revolutionary movement. Likewise, organized racists feed into violence against people based on race, gender, sexual orientation, gender presentation, and other identities, all of which is an important intersection of confrontation for anti-fascists. In general, anti-fascists also have an impetus to fight because of the potential for organized reactionaries to literally push society backwards. All of these together gives a reason to challenge their presence that is tangible and meaningful.
Anarchists need to fight to empower revolutionary political ideas and to keep the process of working class organizing moving forward. Anything that undermines this process should be seen as a barrier to success, and fascist reactionaries will also try to take their ideas to the working class to undermine solidarity and class cohesion. Fascism is real and will crop up in times of crisis and turmoil, the same period that sees anarchism return to the mouths of people looking for a different way forward. Let's remind them that fascism has no future.
Graeber, David & Andrej Grubacic. "Anarchism, Or the Revolutionary Movement of the Twenty-first Century." com, May 14th, 2009.
Johnson, Greg. "New Right vs. Old Right." New Right vs. Old Right. San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2013.
Resta. "The Spanish Anarchist lives for liberty, virtue and dignity." Militant Anti-Fascism. Oakland: AK Press 2015. Pg 85-98.
Ignatiev, Noel. "To Advance the Class Struggle, Abolish the White Race." A New World in Our Hearts: Eight Years of Writings from the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation. Oakland: AK Press 2003. Pg. 80.


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Abraham Lincoln: The American Franchise
An astounding 81 percent of the eligible voters went to the polls in 1860; four years later, the number had dropped to just under 74 percent. Census figures revealed that the nation's population in 1860 numbered 31,443 321 people, an increase of nearly 36 percent since 1850. (In no decade since has America's population growth been above 27 percent.) Two new states came into the Union during the war years: West Virginia, in 1863, as the nation's thirty-fifth state, and Nevada, in 1864. West Virginia broke off from Virginia when the latter seceded from the Union. Lincoln helped the new state along by sending troops, supplies, weapons, and gold from the Treasury (without a congressional appropriation). Nevada had grown up almost overnight with the discovery of silver at the Comstock lode in 1859.
Human Cost of War
Nearly every family in the Confederacy and the Union felt the impact of war with the death and wounding of loved ones and neighbors. The total number of casualties on both sides exceeded well over 1 million. More than 364,000 Union soldiers had died, with 140,000 from battle wounds. Another 275,175 returned home wounded, often crippled for life. The defeated rebels lost 258,000 men, and almost as many suffered wounds. Nearly 800,000 males served in the Confederate armies—nearly 90 percent of the free men aged eighteen to sixty years of age. Many more Union soldiers served, approximately 2.3 million men, but this represented only 44 percent of those eligible as able bodied males. In almost every major battle but one, Chickamauga, the North outnumbered the South in troops in the field, sometimes two to one. And in every major battle, except in the 1864 Wilderness engagement, Southern casualties equaled or exceeded Union casualties.
Socioeconomic Changes
The total cost of the war is estimated to have reached $20 billion, or five times the total expenditures of the federal government since its inception in 1791. Because most of the fighting occurred on Southern soil, the war impacted Southern society to a far greater extent than it did the North. A huge agricultural industry based upon plantation slavery was totally destroyed, and nearly every part of Southern society was altered in revolutionary ways. Small towns and villages became cities as the rural populations flocked to them to work in war-related industries or to find security from the Yankee invaders. Places such as Mobile doubled in population, and the Confederate capital of Richmond grew by 250 percent. Southern white women on the plantations and farms found themselves doing work previously done by slaves and men. Numerous women also shifted from their previous roles in life to work in the Confederate bureaucracy and as schoolteachers. Inflation caused untold human suffering as prices increased almost 7,000 percent, causing bread riots in many Southern towns and high levels of desertion by Southern soldiers running home to care for their families. And the extent of human suffering and actual starvation among the Southern people loomed large as the war slowly constricted the South. Events such as Sherman's march to sea, the conquest of the Mississippi River Valley, the nonstop fighting in the Shenandoah Valley, and Union attacks on the coastal areas of the Carolinas and Georgia took their toll on the Southern people. Once the war ended, economic reconstruction would be dominated by financiers from the North, who would lend money to Southern business and industry leaders at high rates of interest.
In the North, although urban workers experienced a decline in their living standards in the face of a 77 percent inflation rate, most Union citizens on the home front enjoyed substantial prosperity. War contracts pumped giant sums of federal dollars into the economy, probably in excess of $1 billion. Railroad builders and industrialists took advantage of the demand to centralize their operations and to amass huge profits without having to pass much on to workers in wage increases. Agriculture also prospered, and by the end of the war large-scale commercial farming had become a reality. A new generation of mechanical mowers, efficient horse-drawn reapers, and improved plows enabled boys and women to increase production per acre even as their husbands and fathers were away at war. The average white Southerner suffered greatly from the war, losing slaves and farm animals and members of their families in far greater proportion than was the case in the North. At war's end, a devastated and uncertain Southern white citizenry faced a powerful and enriched North, which had transformed itself from a primarily agrarian and craft economy into an industrial powerhouse.
Liberation of African Americans
The war, moreover, in ending slavery liberated 4 million African Americans who stood ready to participate fully in the postwar economy and society as free citizens. The vast majority of the formerly enslaved had little but the shirts on their backs when they emerged from slavery. Few could read or write. Most of them were in disarray either because slavery had broken up their families or else because of the chaos of war. Almost all of them were determined, however, to have their own farms, to live free of any white supervision, to have their marriages legally recognized, and to obtain an education for their children. Armed with the conviction that freedom required independence from white control, the Southern "freedmen" stood ready in 1865 to demand conditions of social, political, and even economic equality with any and every white person in the nation. More than a few abolitionists and Radical Republicans agreed with them and were prepared to fight the new battle of racial equality in the postwar South.
The movement to pass the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, guaranteeing blacks suffrage and other citizenship rights, however, posed an issue for the women's movement. Some women agreed with abolitionists that it was necessary to gain black suffrage first; others argued that women should not give precedence, and that white women deserved the vote before black men. The differences split the suffrage movement, and two organizations that emerged to fight for women's suffrage did not heal their wounds until the turn of the century.