[lbo-talk] US civil War (was US elections)

[James Heartfield]

Karl Marx had a few things to day about the American civil war, indeed. As 
well as his published articles on the matter, he drafted this resolution 
which was passed by the International Working Men's Association 28 January 
1865 (I quote the concluding paragraph, read it in full at 
http://www.marxists.org/history/international/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm)

"The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of 
Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the 
American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it 
an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, 
the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the 
matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the 
reconstruction of a social world."