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I should add that Marx's views reflect the particular ire of the German radicals over Lincoln's removal of John C. Fremont after the latter attempted to use his military authority to end slavery in Missouri. That decision, Lincoln argued, could not be left to local commanders, and would alienate Unionist slaveholders in the border states. This issue continued to be fought out right through to the end of the war, because Lincoln did not include slave territory in Federal hands to be part of the Emancipation Proclamation . . . though neither the slaves nor the Unionists in such places paid this technicality much attention. A journalistic piece, the essay makes several errors of judgment based on accounts in the foreign press, including the exaggerated version of Confederate successes in the fall of 1862. Most importantly, though, it errs in denying that Lincoln was the product of a popular revolution, a position directly refuted in the letter the IWA sent Lincoln in 1864 . . . or the Marxist assessment of the conflict as a Second American Revolution--warts and all . . . a 'bourgeois revolution," to be sure. ML _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
