that is, any racial ideology

我是指任何种族意识
or any pre-slavery or anti-slavery ideology--

或是任何存废奴的思潮
it was two economic systems living together in the same society,

就是两种经济制度共存于同一个社会之中
the same nation,

同一个国家之中
and coming into conflict with one another in insolvable ways;

最终无可避免地演变为一场战争
forces meeting at a crossroads and they had to clash.

两方势力狭路相逢必然会引发冲突
Beard is laden with inevitability,

比尔德认为内战是不可避免的
as any great economic determinist usually is.

就像其他伟大的经济决定论学者一样
He called the American Civil War, famously,

他把美国内战又叫做很有名的一句话
the "Second American Revolution."

"第二次美国革命"
But by that he didn't mean

他说这句话不是指
what Bruce Levine and Eric Foner and other,

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