[lbo-talk] Ron Paul on the Civil War

[Andy]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Carl G. Estabrook
<galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
> There's hardly any question that the Lincoln presidency marked a substantial
> increase in central government power and a corresponding diminution of
> liberty - war is the health of the state.

[...]


> It was a contest between two ruling classes with incompatible methods of
> exploiting labor - chattel slavery and wage slavery.  The latter won, but
> it's not at all clear that liberty did.

Most people who I've heard express concern about loss of liberty from
the CW -- Paul among them -- don't seem to recognize "wage slavery".

-- 
Andy