[justshutupandtakeit]

Hitler never praised Lincoln for anything LIncoln believed in. Marx praised Lincoln because he believed that the capitalist stage of economic development had to be gone through so that socialism could be realized. Development was being retarded by the anachronism of slavery so his praise is hardly odd.

It is simple false that the United States soldiers massacred civilians as a deliberate act.

[spacecowboynj]

"Hitler never praised Lincoln for anything LIncoln believed in"

Sure he did, in this case, the centralization of power in a republic of states. Here's Hitler on the subject

"I would totally eliminate states’ rights altogether: Since for us the state as such is only a form, but the essential is its content, the nation, the people, it is clear that everything else must be subordinated to its sovereign interests. In particular we cannot grant to any individual state within the nation and the state representing it state sovereignty and sovereignty in point of political power."

"Marx praised Lincoln because he believed that the capitalist stage of economic development had to be gone through so that socialism could be realized. Development was being retarded by the anachronism of slavery so his praise is hardly odd."

To Marx it was a glorious workers' revolution and aside from getting that totally wrong, he got everything else wrong in his letter, even saying that the North was invaded by the South as instigation for the war. Believe he even blew it on the date of the Morrill Tariff. Also, the war was NEVER about slavery (Lincoln ignored the four slave states in the Union and said he wanted blacks expelled from the US altogether). That's probably THE biggest lie perpetrated by the ignorant on this country. Lincoln wanted to collect a massive tariff on the south for his Whig agenda (yes, I know he was a Republican but they hated him and his idol was Henry Clay). Lincoln was about one thing and one thing only: total power of the federal govt.

"It is simple false that the United States soldiers massacred civilians as a deliberate act."

Sherman is infamous for it and more than a few northern generals graduated from his example to wipe out the Indians.