Civil War History - Secession and PoliticsWas it Slavery, or was it States Rights? Perhaps it was the election of Lincoln? What were the real reasons for Southern Secession and what were the political issues in this time of war? Find your answers here in the Secession and Politics Disussion.
Well, heck, I disagree with a lot of things Marx says. I also think Engels (who was making a living as a military analysts about this time) was all wet on a number of things he said about the war. But none of that means either Marx or Engels was dumb, and you really can't understand a different time without reading what the main figures of the day were saying, even when you disagree with them.
Interestingly enough, though, a lot of Civil War-related sites seem to like to use the quote from Marx. Usually ones that want the war to be about something other than slavery.
When I wrote that I was actually laughing internally a little bit because on another board, pro-northern sentiment was likened to neo-Puritan/cultural Marxism sprinkled with various Lincoln/Hitler simile
When I wrote that I was actually laughing internally a little bit because on another board, pro-northern sentiment was likened to neo-Puritan/cultural Marxism sprinkled with various Lincoln/Hitler simile
Regards,
Tim
__________________ "Let us, then, consider all attempts to weaken this Union, by maintaining that each state is separately and individually independent, as a species of political heresy, which can never benefit us, but may bring on us the most serious distresses."
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina, 1740-1824, Revolutionary War soldier, one of the authors of the US Constitution in 1787, speaking at the South Carolina Ratifying Convention in 1788.
The only mention of the Marx quote on the Money; The Cause? thread is by unionblue.
No one else used it.
Sorry for nitpickin', but for what its worth, Hanny made reference to Marx's alleged attitude about the war being about money. The misquote so dishonestly attributed as Marx's attitude is the only place he would have gotten that idea from.
Hanny - Post #116: "....i wonderd exactly what was Bttns angle, is he saying what Marx/Dickens were saying and that is was a dispute over the tariff and unequal levy of taxation...."
I believe that I saw an article in which Marx called the CW a "class stryggle."
Any truth to this?
BTW BG August von Villich, who led Ohio troops, once lived with Marx.
__________________ F. S. Powers
Union Ancersor: Pvt Arnuah Norton, 60th Ohio. (G-G-G Grandfather) Died at Salisbury NC, November 3, 1864
Confederate Ancestors: Captain Thomas A. Morrow, 29th Texas Cavalry (G-G-G- Uncle) and 2LT George W. Morrow, 31st Texas Cavalry (G-G-G Grandfather). Both survived the war
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