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Prologue
Prologue
“The question I ask today is not an easy one. That question is this: what is the spirit of our nation? For one such as ours, this question is complicated, intricate, and at times impossible to answer, especially if one examines it from the perspective of our entire history.
Even that word, history, is hard to define. Do we begin, like the Yankees, at Jamestown? Do we begin with Washington and the Sons of Liberty? Or shall we instead jump to Lee and Davis and the war that sundered the Union? Perhaps we could go farther, but I think beginning at that time when North and South ceased to be regions and instead became nations is a fitting beginning. After all, the South was always less than enthusiastic about some of the more libertine ideals being espoused by the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
In that time, it was easy to see the story as that of slavers refusing to bow down to liberty. Our schools often teach that. But ultimately, this is not the entire truth. It was the start, yes, but as always is the case with imperialists’ wars, the war the planters started was fought by the Working Man. Poor white country boys who signed onto a war they didn’t quite understand. What they knew is that their homes were being attacked, that a government they saw as distant and foreign was now attempting to issue orders that their own local and more legitimate government was refusing.
These men fought for their homes, and died for them. And dying beside them were slaves, sent by force to aid the machines of war, or marching on a desperate bid for freedom, their natural rights leveraged against them. As always, it is the bourgeoisie who reap the benefits of a war fought by the proletariat. This was the way of the world for generations. It is often thought then, that the founding spirit of our country is one of exploitation, of the planter exploiting the slave, of the elite exploiting the commoner. But while they were deluded, it has always been the common man, the working class, that has been the soul and spirit of the South. Though we have stumbled, though we have been weighed down by the sins of our forefathers, we found enlightenment! We found truth! And we rose up! We fought! We took power for the people! For the worker!
In this, perhaps one of our darkest hours, we must remember what we are. We must remember what we fight for, remember the existentials truths of our nation! Dixieland is the home of a working people, of peasants and slaves, now masters of their own destinies! Dixieland is a free land, founded on autonomy and love of the motherland, reborn through the principles of Equality, Brotherhood, and Socialism! Say it with me now! Say it! The South will always be free! The South will always be Red!
The South will always be free! The South will always be Red!
The South will always be free! The South will always be Red!
The South will always be free! The South will always be Red!”
“The question I ask today is not an easy one. That question is this: what is the spirit of our nation? For one such as ours, this question is complicated, intricate, and at times impossible to answer, especially if one examines it from the perspective of our entire history.
Even that word, history, is hard to define. Do we begin, like the Yankees, at Jamestown? Do we begin with Washington and the Sons of Liberty? Or shall we instead jump to Lee and Davis and the war that sundered the Union? Perhaps we could go farther, but I think beginning at that time when North and South ceased to be regions and instead became nations is a fitting beginning. After all, the South was always less than enthusiastic about some of the more libertine ideals being espoused by the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
In that time, it was easy to see the story as that of slavers refusing to bow down to liberty. Our schools often teach that. But ultimately, this is not the entire truth. It was the start, yes, but as always is the case with imperialists’ wars, the war the planters started was fought by the Working Man. Poor white country boys who signed onto a war they didn’t quite understand. What they knew is that their homes were being attacked, that a government they saw as distant and foreign was now attempting to issue orders that their own local and more legitimate government was refusing.
These men fought for their homes, and died for them. And dying beside them were slaves, sent by force to aid the machines of war, or marching on a desperate bid for freedom, their natural rights leveraged against them. As always, it is the bourgeoisie who reap the benefits of a war fought by the proletariat. This was the way of the world for generations. It is often thought then, that the founding spirit of our country is one of exploitation, of the planter exploiting the slave, of the elite exploiting the commoner. But while they were deluded, it has always been the common man, the working class, that has been the soul and spirit of the South. Though we have stumbled, though we have been weighed down by the sins of our forefathers, we found enlightenment! We found truth! And we rose up! We fought! We took power for the people! For the worker!
In this, perhaps one of our darkest hours, we must remember what we are. We must remember what we fight for, remember the existentials truths of our nation! Dixieland is the home of a working people, of peasants and slaves, now masters of their own destinies! Dixieland is a free land, founded on autonomy and love of the motherland, reborn through the principles of Equality, Brotherhood, and Socialism! Say it with me now! Say it! The South will always be free! The South will always be Red!
The South will always be free! The South will always be Red!
The South will always be free! The South will always be Red!
The South will always be free! The South will always be Red!”
- Xanthoc
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