Mises Daily
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Joseph R. Stromberg
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they refer to free elections, trial by jury, several of the amendments, trade unions, public libraries, social welfare, and--way, way off to the side--freedom. I of all the high-minded commentary we heard when communism collapsed in Eastern Europe about the “pro-democracy” movement. Well, if Eastern Europeans really went to Revolution and in the 1860s, when Southerners fought to get out of the Glorious Union. I won’t press the latter point here. The “civil war” does raise an interesting