*From The Pages Of "Workers Vanguard"- On The American Civil War And Slavery- A Guest Polemic

Click on the headline to link to a "Workers Vanguard" polemic, dated August 29, 2008.

Markin comment:

I will let the contestants battle it out. I would only emphasize here that Karl Marx, and those who have followed his work, was a historical materialist to his bones. Thus, the struggle against slavery mad it a "no- brainer" for him to support the Northern side in the American Civil War, and to urge others to do so as well.