One of the main characteristics of patriotic socialism in settler colonies is being against decolonization. Lincoln was almost certainly not pro-decolonization; as a result, I don’t think it’s appropriate for a US communist party to glorify him, regardless of his thoughts on Marx’s work
One of the main characteristics of patriotic socialism in settler colonies is being against decolonization. Lincoln was almost certainly not pro-decolonization; as a result, I don’t think it’s appropriate for a US communist party to glorify him, regardless of his thoughts on Marx’s work
That’s a very fair point. He was in fact pro-colonization. Along side his writting of the emancipation proclamation he penned a measure that would see some 5000 black slaves sent to an island near Haiti.
A fact I was not aware of until this conversation.