“We will be all one thing, or all another”.

-Lincoln on the dangers of labor arbitrage and outsourcing.

Lincoln was just an adherent of classical economics, and an opponent of the South’s, putative “free trade” feudalism. Sadly, we have no proponents of The American School of economics in government, today, so we’ll continue to decline for the foreseeable future.

“General William T. Sherman, an acute observer of the war, had predicted this development even before Sumter, telling a rebel acquaintance in late 1860:

“The North can make a steam-engine, locomotive or railway car;
hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth–right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared. . . . At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, and shut out from the markets of Europe by blockade as you will be, your cause will begin to wane.”

Stephen B. Oates, ed. The Whirlwind of War: Voices of the Storm, 1861-1865 (1999) p. 46 from Sherman letter of Dec 1860

1. Outside of their colonial issues, the homestead acts gave labor access to land so they could work without needing to be waged-workers working for someone else. Did you even read Lincoln’s arguments?

Which is the whole point of socialism/communism. We want to be workers free of Capital/Capitalism, to benefit ourselves from our work together, not to benefit absentee “owners” who do no work.

2. What? Yes, Socialist/Communist agree we should publicly offer the best skills training to help people work for themselves better. Land Grant Colleges are a great example of socialist/communist pedagogy and education.

It’d be better if everyone had guaranteed access to them like they used to.

Can you refute this?

1) The Homestead Act

2) Land grant colleges

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