[KGeorge]

Bubba,

Here are some of the links I told you about.

https://books.google.com/books?id=jo2XBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=abolitionists,+karl+marx&source=bl&ots=B5HbC1303u&sig=RuowXob8U_ILYknAsFyOp131Ug0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HZmRVbqsB8jn-QHj24KAAQ&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=abolitionists%2C%20karl%20marx&f=false

https://blackorchidcollective.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/marx-the-militant-abolitionist-study-questions-for-marx-on-the-margins/

http://earlyamericanists.com/2014/05/13/slavery-abolition-and-socialism-in-the-u-s-congress/

I am not attempting to re-engage this conversation. I don’t have time. But I said I would give you links, so here are a few.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Sorry, but none of those links supports your assertion that the abolitionists were fans of Marx, or had even heard of him. Certainly Marx was a fan of the abolitionists, and it’s undisputed that Marx wrote a fan letter to Lincoln (which there’s no indication he ever saw, since the thank you note for it was written by the US ambassador to Great Britain on the same day it was delivered to him in London). The truth is that Marx was a pretty obscure character until the 1870s. The Communist Manifesto had only appeared in English serialized in one magazine in 1848 and wouldn’t be published in America until 1872.