[AUgrad]

This is a complete, total lie. The Confederacy was a socialist institution.

Bull$hit. They were a loose confederation of states, barely cohesive. Hell' they couldn't even build railroads of the same guage between states. How you can call the Confederacy "socialist" is beyond me.

[HumanaeVitae]

"Bull$hit. They were a loose confederation of states, barely cohesive. Hell' they couldn't even build railroads of the same guage between states. How you can call the Confederacy "socialist" is beyond me."

This is wrong. Please check your history.

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Bull$hit. They were a loose confederation of states, barely cohesive. Hell' they couldn't even build railroads of the same guage between states. How you can call the Confederacy "socialist" is beyond me.

Those railroads were built before the war. Hence the CSA had little to do with building them.

In theory the Confederacy was to be a "loose confederation of states." In practice it had rationing and higher taxes than the USA in the same period. It also owned and ran factories essential to the war effort.

I don't think either the Union or the Confederacy was truly socialist in the strict sense of the word. Both sides resorted to greater governmental control to win the war. But the Confederates did go further.

Vin's sniping at "socialist income taxes" under Lincoln doesn't hold up when you consider that the Confederates also had such taxes and took a bigger bite.