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"Marx had been a prolific contributor to the New York Daily Tribune, the most influential Republican newspaper of the 1850s"

https://jacobin.com/2012/08/lincoln-and-marx

Jacobin dot com

RETROPOLIS
You know who was into Karl Marx? No, not AOC. Abraham Lincoln.
The two men were friendly and influenced each other

By Gillian Brockell
July 27, 2019 at 7:00 a.m. EDT

Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/07/27/you-know-who-was-into-karl-marx-no-not-aoc-abraham-lincoln/

"Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War"

https://libcom.org/article/unfinished-revolution-karl-marx-and-abraham-lincoln-robin-blackburn

libcom dot org

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/07/02/who-won-the-civil-war/the-civil-war-was-a-victory-for-marx-and-working-class-radicals

The civil war was a victory for Marx

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/07/02/who-won-the-civil-war/the-civil-war-was-a-victory-for-marx-and-working-class-radicals

New York Times

Marx and Engels were both soon troubled by the actions of Andrew Johnson, the new president. On 15 July 1865, Engels wrote to his friend attacking Johnson: “His hatred of Negroes comes out more and more violently . . . If things go on like this, in six months all the old villains of secession will be sitting in Congress at Washington. Without colored suffrage, nothing whatever can be done there.” Radical Republicans soon came to the same conclusion.

https://jacobin.com/2012/08/lincoln-and-marx

Jacobin dot com

Marx gave full support to the Union cause, even though Lincoln initially refused to make emancipation a war goal. Marx was confident that the clash of rival social regimes, based on opposing systems of labor, would sooner or later surface as the real issue.

https://jacobin.com/2012/08/lincoln-and-marx

Jacobin dot com

Marx insisted that secession had been prompted by the Southern elite’s political fears. They knew that power within the Union was shifting against them. The South was losing its tight grip on federal institutions because of the dynamism of the Northwest, a destination for many new immigrants.

https://jacobin.com/2012/08/lincoln-and-marx

Jacobin dot com

Lincoln may have recognized the name Karl Marx when he read the IWA “Address,” since Marx had been a prolific contributor to the New York Daily Tribune, the most influential Republican newspaper of the 1850s.

https://jacobin.com/2012/08/lincoln-and-marx

Jacobin dot com

"International Working Men’s Association (IWMA)."

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The U.S. ambassador and prominent scion of the presidential family informed the IWMA secretary William Cremer that the Address had been transmitted and received by Lincoln. The president willingly accepted the “sentiments” from “his fellow citizens” (Lincoln never forgot his political obligations even in a private letter!) as well as “friends of humanity and progress” globally.
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https://www.friendsofthelincolncollection.org/lincoln-lore/marx-and-lincoln/

friendsofthelincolncollection org

Marx received a letter from his friend Engels about the new president, Andrew Johnson: “His hatred of Negroes comes out more and more violently… If things go on like this, in six months all the old villains of secession will be sitting in Congress at Washington. Without colored suffrage, nothing whatever can be done there.”

https://www.openculture.com/2022/01/how-karl-marx-influenced-abraham-lincoln-and-his-position-on-slavery-labor.html

openculture.com

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Lincoln was not, of course, a Communist. And yet some of the ideas he absorbed from Marx’s Tribune writings — many of which would later be adapted for the first volume of Capital – made their way into the Republican Party of the 1850s and 60s. That party, writes Brockell, was “anti-slavery, pro-worker and sometimes overtly socialist,”
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https://www.openculture.com/2022/01/how-karl-marx-influenced-abraham-lincoln-and-his-position-on-slavery-labor.html

openculture dot com

As historian Robin Blackburn writes, “The US ambassador in London conveyed a friendly but brief response from the president. However, the antecedents and implications of this little exchange are rarely considered.” It was not the first time Marx and Lincoln had encountered each other. They never met personally, but their affinities led to what Blackburn calls an “unfinished revolution” — not a communist revolution in the U.S.; but a potential revolution for democracy.

https://www.openculture.com/2022/01/how-karl-marx-influenced-abraham-lincoln-and-his-position-on-slavery-labor.html

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Lincoln and Marx became mutual admirers in the early 1860s due to the latter’s work as a foreign correspondent for The New York Daily Tribune. From 1852 until the start of the Civil War, Marx, sometimes with Engels, wrote “over five hundred articles for the Tribune,”
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Early in the war, he championed the Union cause, even before Lincoln decided on emancipation as a course of action
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https://www.openculture.com/2022/01/how-karl-marx-influenced-abraham-lincoln-and-his-position-on-slavery-labor.html

The International Workingmen's Association 1864

Address of the International Working Men's Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America
Presented to U.S. Ambassador Charles Francis Adams
January 28, 1865

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm

Marxists dot org