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Got it; thanks! T -----Original Message----- >From: Mark Lause via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> >Sent: Mar 14, 2017 11:12 AM >To: Thomas F Barton <thomasfbar...@earthlink.net> >Subject: Re: [Marxism] Marx on Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation > > >It's from Comments on North American Events in October 1862. >http://www.marxistsfr.org/archive/marx/works/1862/10/12.htm > > >On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 1:54 AM, Ralph Johansen via Marxism < >marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > >> >> Citation to Collected Works is at bottom of message. Unfortunately, MECW >> are not online, this version still under copyright by International >> Publishers or Lawrence and Wishart afaik. >> >> >> On 3/13/2017 10:24 PM, Thomas wrote: >> >>> Where can one find the article quoted? MEC appear to be out of action. >>> >>> T >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> >>>> From: Ralph Johansen via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> >>>> Sent: Mar 14, 2017 12:14 AM >>>> To: Thomas F Barton <thomasfbar...@earthlink.net> >>>> Subject: [Marxism] Marx on Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation >>>> >>>> I just stumbled on this while looking for something else: >>>> >>>> Lincoln is a /sui generis/ figure in the annals of history. He has no >>>> initiative, no idealistic impetus, no cothurnis, no historical >>>> trappings. He gives his most important actions always the most >>>> commonplace form. Other people claim to be "fighting for an idea," even >>>> when it is for them a matter of square feet of land. Lincoln, even when >>>> he is motivated by an idea, talks about "square feet." He sings the >>>> bravura aria of his part hesitatively, reluctantly and unwillingly, as >>>> though apologizing for being compelled by circumstances to "act the >>>> lion." The most redoubtable decrees - which will always remain >>>> remarkable historical documents - flung by him at the enemy will look >>>> like, and are intended to look like, routine summonses sent by a lawyer >>>> to the lawyer of the opposing party, legal chicaneries, involved, >>>> hide-bound /actiones juris/. His latest proclamation, which is drafted >>>> in the same style, the manifesto abolishing slavery, is the most >>>> important document in American history since the establishment of the >>>> Union, tantamount to the tearing up of the old American Constitution. >>>> >>>> _________________________________________________________ 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
