[GOP_Raider]

Marx was a huge fan of Lincoln.

Really?? That's too intriguing to pass up. I would think that he would prefer a divided U.S. for as long as possible (or maybe a guy like Lenin would have), I'm really surprised about this.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

Marx's vision of history led him to believe that the triumph of the proletariat was inevitable. Seeing America divided and weakened was irrelevant to his vision. According to Marx, Lincoln was a son of the proletariat and his leading a revolution to change America away from leadership by the Planter Aristocracy was one more step. Lenin, fifty some years later, was more interested in power and saw an opportunity in events happening in Russia. He then sought to export his revolution around the world and a divided America would likely have aided his cause.

[Ditto]

Really?? That's too intriguing to pass up. I would think that he would prefer a divided U.S. for as long as possible (or maybe a guy like Lenin would have), I'm really surprised about this.

Keep this in mind. Karl Marx was not a Commie dictator as we have come to know them. He was just a piss poor economist and Utopian 'social thinker' who figured he had a solution to all of the world's problems. He didn't begin to comprehend the hell on Earth that his solutions would generate when actually applied by monsters like Stalin, Mao, or Castro who would use his half baked ideas to commit their crimes.

If he had lived long enough to see that, he would have denounced both them and his own theories.