Iliocentrism: The real reason for the US Civil War -- Statism

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

James Padilioni Jr (posted by John Jay Ray): Lincoln: Separating the Man from the Mythos

B. Prokop said...: Sorry, Ilion, but this is nonsense. The South Carolina Declaration of Secession mentions slavery as the proximate cause of dissolving the Union. In fact, it lists NO OTHER REASON for doing so - not tariffs, not states' rights, not anything else.

It is those who make the claim that the Civil War was somehow not principally about slavery who are the true revisionists.; October 8, 2013 at 7:37 PM
Bedarz Iliaci said...: "Statism" is a useless word, as useless as "fascism". A libertarian bogey.
Locke held that the primary function of the state was to secure the unhindered accumulation of private hoardings. I suppose, if one follows Locke, everything else would be statism. But why should we follow Locke? Even the American constitution does not.; October 9, 2013 at 1:34 AM

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