Marx and Engels, Letters to Americans

>>8712295
Nice OP. Too bad he didn't make it to the states and build the revolution there, he vastly underestimated how vicious and all-encompassing capital's attack would be against the American worker, physically and mentally.

tfw disadvantaged millionaire

>>8712353
If this is a jab at Engels, then I'd reply that if he were a cave-dwelling hermit it wouldn't make his writings any more or less valid.

Jefferson was a slaveowner and yet he defended the Jacobins and their policy of revolutionary terror against feudalism while many of the other Founding Fathers, who didn't own slaves, opposed the French Revolution.

Jefferson,
>In the struggle which was necessary, many guilty persons fell without the forms of trial, and with them some innocent. These I deplore as much as any body, and shall deplore some of them to the day of my death. But I deplore them as I should have done had they fallen in battle. It was necessary to use the arm of the people, a machine not quite so blind as balls and bombs, but blind to a certain degree. A few of their cordial friends met at their hands the fate of enemies. But time and truth will rescue and embalm their memories, while their posterity will be enjoying that very liberty for which they would never have hesitated to offer up their lives. The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood? My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause, but rather than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated.

>>8712379
but muh gorilions

>>8712349
Marx was going to move to Texas IIRC. Wonder what stopped him.

>>8713838
Speaking of Texas, an important German-American Marxist, Adolph Douai, was based there.

The labor historian Philip S. Foner on the first Marxist group in the USA, founded in 1857:

>The Communist Club of New York was not only the first Marxist organization in the Western Hemisphere; it was the only socialist (and labor) organization that invited blacks to join as equal members. Its constitution required all members to "recognize the complete equality of all persons—no matter of whatever color or sex." The club was also in the forefront of the struggle against slavery, and its members played an important role in mobilizing the German-American workers in opposition to the "peculiar institution." ....

>By 1860, these workers had become committed to a radical antislavery position. Moreover, men like Weydemeyer, Douai, and members of the Communist Club, including Sorge, formed a significant force in the Republican Party, seeking to push the party in a more radical direction, particularly in the direction of favoring the total abolition of slavery.

>When the Civil War began with the attack on Fort Sumter, most of the German radical organizations disbanded because the majority of their members enlisted in the Union forces. The New York Communist Club did not meet for the duration of the war since most of its members had joined the Union army.

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>>8714090
Besides mere advocacy and campaigning, Joseph Weydemeyer and Adolph Douai had a more direct influence. A conference was held at the Deutsches Haus in Chicago in May 1860. This was a meeting of German-American representatives from around the country who hoped to influence the proceedings of the Republican National Convention which would be held days later in the same city. Both men attended the conference and Douai was one of two participants tasked with preparing resolutions to be presented to the Convention on behalf of German-Americans. The proceedings of the conference worried the Convention's organizers, who feared the Republicans losing the large German-American vote in various states. As a result the conference had an important (some say decisive) impact on the Convention's decision to nominate Lincoln as the Republican Presidential candidate owing to his strong ties to that community.