Lincoln and Marx

[Susurrus]

http://www.isreview.org/issues/79/feature-marx-lincoln.shtml

[Threetune]

http://www.isreview.org/issues/79/feature-marx-lincoln.shtml


For American workers in particular, this would make a very good and useful little pamphlet.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

I like this book. Recommended. But the linked page suffices as well!

http://www.amazon.com/Unfinished-Revolution-Karl-Abraham-Lincoln/dp/1844677222/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324391243&sr=8-1

http://www.versobooks.com/system/images/1145/original/An-Unfinished-Revolution-frontcover.jpg

[manic expression]

I don't know enough about the subject to say too much, and I'll try to get to reading the article in good time, but I wouldn't be too quick to paint Lincoln as a leftist...from what I've read, he didn't want to pursue abolition, just limit it to the states in which it already existed. Plus, he hung out with Pinkerton (head of the union-busting thug detective agency) of all people.

[Susurrus]

I don't know enough about the subject to say too much, and I'll try to get to reading the article in good time, but I wouldn't be too quick to paint Lincoln as a leftist...from what I've read, he didn't want to pursue abolition, just limit it to the states in which it already existed. Plus, he hung out with Pinkerton (head of the union-busting thug detective agency) of all people.

Well, obviously the president of the United States can't be too much of a revolutionary. His view on abolition was one focused on keeping the Union together and avoiding more civil war. It's kindof like Rutherford B. Hayes: make very leftist and radical statements, yet your position demands certain actions to maintain it.

[Threetune]

I don't know enough about the subject to say too much, and I'll try to get to reading the article in good time, but I wouldn't be too quick to paint Lincoln as a leftist...from what I've read, he didn't want to pursue abolition, just limit it to the states in which it already existed. Plus, he hung out with Pinkerton (head of the union-busting thug detective agency) of all people.

No one so far is jumping to any such conclusions. You might want to read it first?