[DiogenesLamp]

George Fritzhugh wrote a whole pamphlet on how the Slave System was a form of Socialism.

That sounds interesting. I will have to look that up.

The CSA Nationalized whole Industries.The Mills and Mines, food and clothing Industries.

You read too much into that. They were outnumbered 4 to 1 in manpower and way overmatched in industrial production.

Nations struggling to survive will do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.

[ProgressingAmerica]

CB: "George Fritzhugh wrote a whole pamphlet on how the Slave System was a form of Socialism.

DL:That sounds interesting. I will have to look that up."

I can save you both time here. Fitzhugh wrote that in his book "Sociology for the South: or, The failure of free society".

It's on pages 244-246. https://books.google.com/books?id=HjJLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA244