What Spielberg’s “Lincoln” conveniently leaves out

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33. Speilberg is, himself, a plutocrat. You can't expect him to make a class-based critique. Period.

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As a plutocrat, he is, of course, several cuts above most of the rest. But, any meeting of the minds between Lincoln and Karl Marx aren't likely to make the final cut. Not in the American release, anyway.

Someone really should film the story of one of Lincoln's closest friends. He was a Civil War Union General from Prussia named Karl Schurz who had been a Member of the revolutionary parliament that was crushed with the help of the the Czar by Prusso-Austrian aristocrats. Along with the other founding Socialists and radicals, Schurz was hounded out of Europe by Bismarck's Chief of Secret Police before he came to America, where he went on to be Sentaor from Wisconsin, a leading light in the Republican Party, a noted Abolitionist and "Carpetbagger", and alongside Mark Twain, a head of the Anti-Imperialist movement, and Ambassador to Spain. See, Subsection "Return of the Prussian Policeman", http://journals.democraticunderground.com/leveymg/211