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Language, Once Again: Civil War, Inclusive Language, Economic Warfare, National Wealth

Civil War

What took place in 1861 in the U.S. was not a “civil war.” There were not two contending armies, each one trying to rule the other. Rather, this was a war over secession.

For an example of a true civil war we might consider the Spanish Civil War of 1936. There, two groups fought each other, and each wished to rule over the entire country. On the one side were the fascists, under Franco; on the other side were the communists.

Abedian, I., and B. Standish. 1985. “Poor Whites and the Role of the State: The Evidence,” South Africa Journal of Economics 52, no. 2.

Abella, Irving, and Harold Troper. 1982. None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933–1948, Toronto: Lester and Orpen Dennys.

Adams, Charles. 2000. When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession, New York: Rowman & Littlefield.

Alchian, Armen A. 1977. Economic Forces at Work, Indianapolis, Ind.: Liberty Fund.

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THE CASE FOR
DISCRIMINATION

THE CASE FOR
DISCRIMINATION

WALTER E. BLOCK

LvMI

MISES INSTITUTE

I owe a great debt of gratitude to Lew Rockwell for publishing this book (and for much, much more) and to Scott Kjar for a splendid job of editing.

© 2010 by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and published under the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

EVERY AGE OFFERS ITS OWN VERSION OF A FALSE MORAL CODE. Just as Tom Sawyer thought that he was surely evil for being tempted to free a slave, we too live with incredible illusions about right and wrong as it applies to the civic realm. A firm principle of our age is that we must never discriminate. With Professor Block’s book, however, we are encouraged to be free at last.

SOME OF THE ESSAYS INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK DEAL WITH EVENTS as they arose in Canada. This is due to the fact that I worked at the Fraser Institute, located in Vancouver, British Columbia from 1979–1991, when a portion of these pieces were written. But, let me assure readers from other nations, the issues of discrimination which arose there and then were global issues having implications for most places in the world, particularly the U.S., in the modern era.