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Yeah, for a number of reasons such as 1) the decentralization of the State's legislative and executive power 2) the developement of regional autonomous artisan industry thus negating the monopolization of production by capitalism and 3) the ability to provide free and efficient public services.
At the time the northern financed/owned production could not compete with the south for manpower and its neo feudal State-less production model, which with a few tweaks could convert its chatel slavery model into an egalitarian socialism.
The black music would have evolved out of the blues into jazz in 1870's instead of 1920's if Proudhon's ideas had not been overtaken by the Abe Lincoln civil war and the capitalism iñvasion.