to borrow from Yankee purists- the monument belongs in a museum in a dark forgotten place
I think the Lincoln Marx dialogue is overrated from the Lincoln perspective
But it’s ironic you chose the wording you did
Marx loved Lincoln no question
I think Lincoln found Marx intriguing but no way he’d have supported communism ....
It’s been forty years since Doctor Neumaier required us to read Marx and Hegel etc at Ole Miss
Did Marx actually advocate the bloodshed that eventually arose
Seems The Bolshies and then Stalin and the Mao and eventually Pol Pot and Castro found their murderous excess more through autocracy and the police state rather than pure collectivism
Course I know Freepers eschew nuance
So folks indulge me
Sadly autocratic excess is a given in totalitarianism and the rise of a truly Deep State accompanies it
It’s another irony how many of those in the former Soviet Union ..the grandchildren and great grandchildren of Bolshies and Menshies as apparatchiks in 1990 then transformed overnight into oligarchs of those state industries they formerly had a hand in running through IPOs which simply gave them controlling blocks of stock
Aparactchiks and former GRU/KGB goons issued themselves rich courtesy of western underwriters ....gotta love their chutzpah
Putin kiiboshed nearly all of that to his credit except a couple he keeps close
It’s still the state the state the state
The Dems are now all in for that tack and GOPe too just slower velocity