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Socialist Progressives

limpyhobbler

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4. Hell yeah that's awesome.

Reply to Starry Messenger (Reply #3)

Thu Apr 26, 2012, 12:09 AM

Apr 2012

That must be the rightwinger's axis of evil... Karl Marx, Abe Lincoln and, I don't know, Nelson Mandela probably. Or MLK.

Socialists and Communists have always been at the forefront of racial emancipation struggles and played a major role in the 20th century civil rights struggles as well. And that history tends to get burried too, like this history about the election of 1860. This Marx and Lincoln connection is fascinating. I'd like to read more about it at some point.

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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