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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
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The Civil War was about capitalism. The ability for capitalists to keep their labour costs down, way down.
Oh, say what is it called when someone is forced to work against their will for no money? I know there's a word for it...
Slavery, which can and is employed in capitalist systems when there's opportunity to do so.
The Southern Aristocracy was very much operating on a pre-capitalist economy, with a system of pseudo-feudalism predominating in the slave economy. If the US Civil War was about capitalism, the northern industrialists, who benefitted from the Southern feudal economy keeping costs low, would have supported the South's war for slavery, not the North's attempts to end it.