From: Louis Proyect
> CB: He supported Lincoln and the Republicans whose platform was quite > bourgeois. Lincoln had a middling postion on slavery and later > suspended habeas corpus Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during a revolutionary war against slavery. Obama's suspension of constitutional rights is an extension of George W. Bush's. Now, I do admit that Lincoln and George W. Bush did belong to the same party, so I guess in the Alice in Wonderland world of the CPUSA, this squares the circle. ^^^^^ CB: Oh now you take up the CPUSA/Aptheker line that the US Civil War was a revolutionary war. Welcome to the real Marxist position, comrade. The Republican Party platform of 1860 was not much like that in the Communist Manifesto and Lincoln waffled in his discussions of slavery during the campaign, yet Marxists supported him. The Marxists adovcated freeing the slaves at the beginning the war, but Lincoln didn't do that, yet the Marxists still supported him. Marx and Engels weren't sectarians like some who will remain nameless. So, its a reasonable inference that he would support Obama. Silly Rabbit , you are late for very important date. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
