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Starry Messenger

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3. Isn't that cool?

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 11:09 PM

Apr 2012

Yeah, I didn't learn that in school either. Interestingly, the right-wing know about it. There are Libertarian and teabagger sites that basically call the legitimacy of Lincoln, the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves into question because "teh commies" were involved. *eyes* I won't link them, since they are all rankly racist.

Someone in GD remarked a few months ago that they couldn't see why Marxists would be interested in the elections in the US, and I've been meaning to scan this chapter from Foster's book ever since. Marx himself was deeply absorbed in the future of the US and encouraged mass coalitions of allies to GOTV.

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The Election of Abraham Lincoln [View all] Starry Messenger Apr 2012 OP

Are you sure, because I don't remember that from history class in high school... limpyhobbler Apr 2012 #1

And on a related note...Marx's Letter to Abraham Lincoln, and the response. limpyhobbler Apr 2012 #2

Isn't that cool? Starry Messenger Apr 2012 #3

Hell yeah that's awesome. limpyhobbler Apr 2012 #4

Marx was a Civil War correspondent/journalist. Starry Messenger Apr 2012 #6

The prose can't sound crunchy to me limpyhobbler Apr 2012 #8

I've been making my way through Kapital, too! Starry Messenger Apr 2012 #10

So do you know if that Foster chapter is available online ? limpyhobbler Apr 2012 #5

Nope, I have the dead tree book. This is a world-wide exclusive. :) Starry Messenger Apr 2012 #7

That's cool. One of the used book places in my town might have it. limpyhobbler Apr 2012 #9

The liberal-conservative distinction really keeps us blind to a lot of history that's elided. I HiPointDem May 2012 #12

Yeah, I've seen some of that kooky Bircher stuff too. Starry Messenger May 2012 #13

Many of my German-American ancestors were Republican (I capitalize it in respect of those times) jwirr Apr 2012 #11