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Genovese devotes much of the rest of this work to a consideration of the Southern planter ideology through an examination of George Fitzhugh's defense of the institution of slavery. Fitzhugh went back to pre-Lockean notions of social relations in which paternal bonds were unserverable. In this sense Fitzhugh invalidates the very premise upon which the American Revolution was fought. He is the ultimate feudal reactionary, thrusting the doctrines of Filmer in the face of Lockean bourgeois revolutionaries. Yet Fitzhugh went even further than the repudiation of the American revolution. He repudiated the English Revolution of the 17th century; he repudiated capitalism in favor of a pre-bourgeois romanticism:
In effect, he could only argue that exploitation and class stratification were inevitable and that slavery, with its principle of responsibility of one man for another, led to less hardship and despair than capitalism, with its principle of every man for himself, for at least the worker had a community to appeal to other than one based on the cash nexus. (p. 160)
If the slave mode of production had not been so profitable in the South, as the factory mode was in the North, there would never have been a Fitzhugh. Yet slavery was profitable and Fitzhugh consequently based his ideological exposition on a thriving institution. Fitzhugh knew, as did his contemporaries in the 1840s and 50s, that the very existence of the slave system was predicated upon the expansion of that institution into the territories. Here the national system broke down.