Letters to the Editor
To comment on the movie review by Steve Byas about Dinesh D’Souza’s movie Death of a Nation by The New American (September 17, 2018 issue) — in which D’Souza lauds Abraham Lincoln and attacks Democrats — let me first bring up a historical quote: “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 the social world.”
This is mighty high praise given President Lincoln after his reelection victory in 1864. If not clear enough, the writer begins his open letter to President Lincoln, “We congratulate the American people upon your re-election by a large majority.”
Who is this mystery writer congratulating Lincoln while beating the war drums against slavery and casting the American war in terms of class warfare? It’s none other than the “Father of Communism,” Karl Marx.
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