Last year Clint Lacy of the Mo. Bushwhacker site claimed that I was a socialist and that the cause of the Civil War was as Karl Marx wrote to President Lincoln about…you know that whole tariff/economic thing.  Now recently one of his readers as spewed forth this myth about Karl Marx claiming the war was about economics and I promised I would repost the article I wrote on one of my earlier blogs “The War of the Rebellion and the Lost Cause”…so here it is again…

Enjoy Clint and Josef Nix!

Clint Lacy claims that I am re-writing history, yet on his blog he now claims that the Civil War or War of the Rebellion was a Communist Revolution. He links that fact that Karl Marx wrote President Lincoln as proof that Lincoln wanted to socialize the United States. I am no Lincoln scholar, but I think it is safe to say that no where in Lincoln’s speeches or writings is there any pretense to creating as socialistic society in America.

In one quote from Lacy’s article he states the followng…

Even fellow Marxist Karl Marx stated that…

“The war between the North and the South is a tariff war. The war is further, not for any principle, does not touch the question of slavery, and in fact turns on the Northern lust for sovereignty.”

The problem with this statement, and every neo-confederate makes this mistake, is that it is not Marx who is stating that the war is a tariff war. What Marx is doing is summerizing what the papers in London are saying about the American Civil War. Marx fully believes that the south started the war to protect and expand slavery. Here is the LINK, so the you can read the quote in context.

So if your reading the Bushwhacker’s site, do so with a grain of salt. He has an agenda and history be damned!!