Marx and the American Civil War (was Re: Realism in Eastern Europe)

[Michael Hoover]

> Karl Marx was a stauch supporter of the Union or Federal side in
> the American Civil War.  
> 			Jim Farmelant

his writings on above are collected in _Karl Marx: On America & The
Civil War_, Saul Padover, ed.

'... "the South" is neither a territory completely detached from the
North geographically nor a moral unity.  It is not a country at
all, but a battle slogan.'  (Marx, *Die Presse*, Vienna, 7 November
1861)

Michael Hoover