It’s called a town
When Fitzhugh compares a southern plantation to a socialist commune, it reminds me of South Park‘s “Die Hippie, Die” episode:
View ArticleSlavery Without Domestic Affection
Slavery without domestic affection would be a curse, Fitzhugh says — and so would marriage and parental authority: Historians and philosophers, speculating upon the origin of governments, have...
View ArticleGovernment without Religion
Despite the Constitution, there is scarcely a state that would permit any gross violations of Christian morality, Fitzhugh says — again, writing in 1854: Mormons and Oneida Perfectionists would no...
View ArticleInstinct and Common Sense
Instinct and common sense deny the economic proposition that a nation gains nothing by selling more than it buys, Fitzhugh says: They say, that the way for individuals or people to get rich is to sell...
View ArticleUsury
Nothing has more perplexed political economists and mankind at large, Fitzhugh says, than the subject of usury: That it was right, proper, and laudable for every man to get the highest market price for...
View ArticleFree Trade Prevents the Growth of Civilization
Fitzhugh finds the standard arguments for free trade as false as they are specious: The usual and familiar arguments in favor of this policy are, that it is cheaper to buy abroad good manufactured...
View ArticleRevolutions Always Harm
Reformations always do good, Fitzhugh says, but revolutions always harm: All old institutions in time become incrusted with error and abuse, and frequent reforms are required to keep them in good...
View ArticleThe Slave Trade
As a strong proponent of paternalistic slavery, Fitzhugh argues against the slave trade: From several quarters propositions have of late been made for the revival of the African slave trade. The South...
View ArticleNew Things Under the Sun
Liberty and equality are new things under the sun, Fitzhugh reminds us — writing from the antebellum South: The free states of antiquity abounded with slaves. The feudal system that supplanted Roman...
View ArticleLicense to the Strong
The bestowing upon men equality of rights, Fitzhugh argues, is but giving license to the strong to oppress the weak: It begets the grossest inequalities of condition. Menials and day laborers are and...
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