What Allen West Doesn't Know About Communists and Congress (i.e. that the real Commies were Repubs)

[salvorhardin]

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"...West might take a measure of comfort in knowing that he is not entirely wrong...

For the most part, these radicals have operated under a single banner ... that of the Republican Party.

Founded at Ripon, Wisconsin, in 1854 by utopian socialists and militant abolitionists, the early Republican Party included many German-American immigrants who had come the United States after the wave of European revolutions that stirred in 1848 fell short of its radical goals. Among the first Republicans were allies and associates of Karl Marx, such as Joseph Weydemeyer, who would eventually serve as as a Civil War colonel.

Abraham Lincoln, who like so many of the leading Republicans of his day read Marx and Engles in the pages of Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune (where they served for many years as European correspondents), spoke often about the superiority of labor to capital and was highly critical of concentrated wealth. Among Lincoln’s White House aides was Charles Dana, Marx’s editor. And the sixteenth president accepted the congratulations of Marx and his fellow London Communists after Lincoln’s 1864 re-election."

Link: http://www.thenation.com/blog/167380/what-allen-west-does-not-know-about-communists-and-congress

[pangaia]

1. Well, what I don't know never ceases to surprise me.

Teabaggers heads would explode.

With this post, and the other nearby about Lincoln, it high time I really dug into him.

Thanks...