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Marx’s notions of communism were derived from his poor understanding of a southern plantation economy.

I've been reading your hilarious posts on this thread. You just make this stuff up as you go along don't you.

Communism predates Lincoln by two thousand years. Secular Communism predates Lincoln by about seventy years. Progressivism is the culmination of a set of policies Lincoln supported and was made possible by policies he enacted.

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Preposterous. Are you saying Lenin and Marx were over two thousand years old?

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Marx wrote Das Kapital in 1867. Certainly Lincoln never had access to the views of class struggle and criticism of the economics of capitalism promulgated there.

The Communist Manifesto of 1848 was an odd book pretending scientific study of history, yet with no science: rather than experiments that could prove the hypothesis incorrect, it pushed dialectic, wherein experiments were either not possible or not necessary.

At that time, Lincoln was busy, either in Congress or practicing law.