Ironically, it is the neo-Confederate rightwingers who are , I guess,
trying to bring back slavery in the South, who chronicle the enormous
contributions of German Communists to the military cause of the North
in the Civil War
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COMMUNISTS’ EFFECT ON AMERICA
http://www.southernheritage411.com/truehistory.php?th=122
Their influence from then to now—How did it all begin? Did they leave
their footprints on our nation?
Why did Lincoln and his Republicans insist on attacking the sovereign
nation, the Confederate States of America? Why did Lincoln and his
Republicans refuse to compromise with the South?
Perhaps the following may set you on the pathway to truth and aid you
in answering both questions.
All that follows comes to us through the courtesy of Walter D. Kennedy
and Al Benson, from their explosive, iconoclastic history text
entitled RED REPUBLICANS AND LINCOLN’S MARXISTS: MARXISM IN THE CIVIL
WAR (obtainable online at http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/ ). If
you think what you o read here is something“you ain’t seen nothin’
yet!” Do read the book. My impression of the contents in just one of
its chapters follows.
IMPORTANT REPUBLICAN POLICY- INSTIGATORS, ‘”FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES,”
--APPOINTED THERE BY ABE LINCOLN --
1. Brigadier General Joseph WEYDEMEYER of Lincoln’s army was a close
friend of Karl MARX and Fredrick Engels in the London Communist
League. Marx wrote Weydemeyer’s letter of introduction to Charles A.
DANA—an editor of New York Times Tribune. Weydemeyer was an escapist
from the Socialist/Communist Revolution. He fled to the U.S. and
became very active in the just-beginning Republican Party. He
supported Freeman in the Republican Party’s first election and Lincoln
in its second. He was described in a Communist publication as a
“PIONEER AMERICAN MARXIST.’ He wrote for and edited several radical
socialist journals in the U.S. (p. 200)
2. Assistant Secretary of War Charles A. DANA ---close friend of Marx,
published with Joseph Weydemyer a number of Communist Journals and,
also “The Communist Manifesto,” commissioned by Karl Marx. As a member
of the Communist/Socialist Fourier Society in America, Dana was well
acquainted with Marx and Marx’s colleague in Communism, Fredrick
Engels. Dana, also, was a friend of all Marxists in Lincoln’s
Republican Party, offering assistance to them almost upon their
arrival on the American continent. This happened often after receiving
introductory letters from Karl MARX, himself. (p. 196).
“Prior to the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, no other American did
more to promote the cause of communism in the United States than did
Dana.” (p. 141). It was due to Dana’s close friendship and work with
the New York Tribune editor, Horace Greeley, another dedicated
socialist, that Greeley employed Marx as a correspondent/contributor
to the U.S. newspaper. Dana became the first high-level communist in
an American administration---which was the FIRST REPUBLICAN
ADMINISTRATION in the United States of America.
3. Brigadier General Louis BLENKER, Lincoln’s army—radical
socialist/Communist from Germany—was remarkably successful in
encouraging German immigrants to join Lincoln’s army and the
Republican party. He promised Lincoln that he could get “. . .
thousands of Germans ready to fight for the preservation of the
Union.”(p. xiv). He was a leader in the Revolution in Germany and
fought in several battles there. When the Revolution failed, he went
to Switzerland where, along with other Marxists, he was ordered to
leave the country. His life in the U.S. was markedly grander than it
had been previously—on a much higher social level. As a General, he
offered a refuge to all Marxists. If unable to obtain a commission for
them, he made a place for them as “aide-de-camp.” Great food, great
drinks, great entertainment and servants were available for one and
all obtained, largely by looting defenseless civilians. This practice
was so flagrant, civilians who were looted, were considered
“Blenkered.” Later, Blenker, under accusations of graft, resigned his
commission. (p. 118)
4. Major General August WILLICH—often called “The Reddest of the Red
‘48ers” was a member of the London Communist League with Karl MARX and
Fredrick ENGLES. (p. xiv) Before seeking refuge in the U.S. Willich
was a personal acquaintance of Karl MARX. In fact, Marx referred to
Willich as “A communist with a heart.” Willich was a Captain in the
Prussian army when he met Karl Marx and became a Socialist/Communist.
The Prussian Army court martialed Willich and kicked him out of the
army. He, then, participated in the Socialist Revolution in Germany.
He fled the nation when the revolt was crushed, and eventually wound
up in the U.S. and became an editor of a newspaper in Cincinnati
written in the German language. He raised volunteers from the Germans
in his area and became their Captain. Eventually he became a general
and was, actually, a competent commander. He never ceased
indoctrinating his troops wi
