Reply #25: Ugh... that's cute. [View All]

[LostInAnomie]

As an owner of Most of Marx's published works, I am not disagreeing with his assessment because he was a "Commie Pinko".

Yes, I've read the entire thing numerous time before you even posted it.

The article you posted is where he is taking apart the arguments of the British press (that were very pro-confederacy). My disagreement with him is that he doesn't go far enough and just call it like it is "The South is fighting to preserve slavery". Of course, that wouldn't fit with Marx's very verbose style (Why use a sentence when 40 pages will do?). The closest he comes in this article is: "The whole movement was and is based, as one sees, on the slave question. Not in the sense of whether the slaves within the existing slave states should be emancipated outright or not, but whether the twenty million free men of the North should submit any longer to an oligarchy of three hundred thousand slaveholders; whether the vast Territories of the republic should be nurseries for free states or for slavery; finally, whether the national policy of the Union should take armed spreading of slavery in Mexico, Central and South America as its device."