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Is anyone familiar with Red Republicans and Lincoln's Marxists, by Walter D. Kennedy and Al Benson, Jr.?
It claims that "many socialists immigrated to the U.S. from Europe during the 1840s and 1850s and flocked to the Republican Party because it represented what they believed in. Many were exiled from their native homelands due to their participation in the failed socialist revolutions of 1848. Some even escaped from prison and made their way to America. These people are commonly known as Forty-Eighters. They were faithful to bring their socialist ideologies with them when they settled in their new homes. Many of them started newspapers and spread their socialist propaganda throughout the North. They were great admirers of Lincoln because they shared the same ideas of big government and no state's rights."
Now, I've read some posts made by Pat Young, who often emphasizes the role immigrants played, but this seems contrary to the things I've seen him post. Can I dismiss this book as excrement or is there something substantial to this?
It claims that "many socialists immigrated to the U.S. from Europe during the 1840s and 1850s and flocked to the Republican Party because it represented what they believed in. Many were exiled from their native homelands due to their participation in the failed socialist revolutions of 1848. Some even escaped from prison and made their way to America. These people are commonly known as Forty-Eighters. They were faithful to bring their socialist ideologies with them when they settled in their new homes. Many of them started newspapers and spread their socialist propaganda throughout the North. They were great admirers of Lincoln because they shared the same ideas of big government and no state's rights."
Now, I've read some posts made by Pat Young, who often emphasizes the role immigrants played, but this seems contrary to the things I've seen him post. Can I dismiss this book as excrement or is there something substantial to this?
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