Sociology for the South: Or, The Failure of Free Society
- 326 pages
- 12 hours of reading
George Fitzhugh Book order
This American social theorist, judge, and writer was a critic of the philosophical foundations of personal liberty and capitalism. In his work "Sociology for the South," he launched a sharp attack on Adam Smith, John Locke, and Thomas Jefferson, as well as the entire liberal tradition. He argued that free labor and free markets enriched the strong while crushing the weak. His "Cannibals All!" offered a pointed critique of the "wage-slavery" system prevalent in the North.
- 2022
- 2008
Cannibals All!
- 384 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Excerpt: ...of sins. New England is culpable for permitting Parker and Beecher to stir up civil discord and domestic broils from the pulpit. These men deserve punishment, for they have instigated and occasioned a thousand murders in Kansas; yet they did nothing more than carry into practice the right of private judgment, liberty of speech, freedom of the press and of religion. These boasted privileges have become far more dangerous to the lives, the property and the peace of the people of this Union, than all the robbers and murderers and malefactors put together. The Reformation was but an effort of Nature