I didn't think Marx had any clout when Lincoln was president. But I don't know everything. That explains why Lincoln nearly destroyed the 10th amendment to end slavery.
But why would Marx care about ending slavery? He hated blacks, but then Marx hated everyone. Perhaps that's just his opinion on how to end slavery if you wanted to end slavery. He probably didn't care one way or the other.
That makes me wonder, did Lincoln oppose slavery just for political reasons and not for moral reasons. Because there's absolutely nothing moral about starting a war for any other reason than the preservation of liberty. Especially a civil war that pit family against family in some cases. Even in Lincoln's case because Jefferson Davis was Lincoln's cousin.
Sure the war wasn't fought, in part, over the transcontinental railroad? I know it was fought because rich people wanted to keep their slaves and that and other economic and governmental representation reasons lead the South to want to secede from the Union. Lincoln was obsessed with keeping the South from leaving.
I had no idea Marx had any involvement with the Civil War. I thought he was too busy, at that time, writing love poetry to Mephistopheles. Well I guess his Communist Manifesto had already been around several years before the war. I didn't think any one took anything Marx wrote seriously until after he died. I guess there has always been stupid gullible people, even in the mid 1800's.
Anyway, this is fascinating. I love learning new stuff. Thanks for this. Ill have to look into this and learn more.
"If you took it not just as a comment to you, but one that would bother you, well, then that's on you."
How many times have you told me that you're just here (oh how should I put it) "mess with people". You know that you're here just to poke the bear (so to say). You want to illicit a reaction. That is you raison d'etre.
It isn't "on me" because I don't care. I know you're not serious.
You specifically told me that no Democrats where in the Confederacy. Maybe you told that to BurntFinger also.
"Southern MAGA trope is a familiar standby here. It is not exclusive to you."
So you like to play that game with a lot of people. Well, I never felt like you were just picking on little ol' me anyway.
"he went from generations on the family farm to someone from a military family that spent his years growing up moving from country to country and runs his own corporation which imports goods to sell now, only to go back to the family farm storyline again all within the same week. The same week."
I don't see the problem there. My family went generations on the family farm, then my dad left the farmer, became a plumber and eventually started his own plumbing business, in 3 different states. I've lived in 4 states (8 if you want to count college in Hawaii and serving an LDS mission in the New England states). I haven't been all over the world but I have been to the UK, Switzerland, France and Mexico. I was also in Canada on a layover, if that counts. But I come from a family that lived on the same land for multiple generations. I didn't but my dad grew up on that farm. And I am telling you that story all at the same time. I didn't even wait a day or so in "the same week".
Greenland is 70% ice and you want me to consider a coming ice age with all of this climate change nonsense?
As long as we can keep capitalism going full steam ahead and America a free country, then Greenland won't have any ice, right?
Global Cooling, The Ozone Hole, Global warming and Climate Change was all invented by fascists and socialists to kill capitalism, take away our property rights (which includes ownership of your own life) and kill freedom.
