re: #20 jaunte

Marx corresponded with Lincoln and agreed with him on ending slavery, but the idea that Lincoln “introduced communism” to America is dopey.
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Agreed, though it was hardly a correspondence. Marx, as the leader of the International Working Men’s Association, wrote a letter to Lincoln in 1865 congratulating him on his reelection, and received a reply from the U.S. Ambassador, Charles Francis Adams.

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