Marx Was Right?

February 1, 2011

Writes Robert Hiett:

Concerning “Did Tariffs Really Cause the Civil War? The Morrill Act at 150,” Karl Marx correctly framed the war as the capitalistic North versus the feudal South. He also points out that the mortgage holders of Southern plantations were New York banks! See here and here.

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