Old Abe nailed it, didn't he? If John Wilkes Booth didn't assassinate Lincoln, who know what might have happened? Lincoln read Marx & Engels, who both supported the Union during the Civil War. He may have tried to move the country in a more socialist direction.
And some industrialist or banker would have found another John Wilkes Booth.
I had forgotten about that Lincoln/Marx connection. They both admired each other and Lincoln regularly read the columns Marx wrote for a US paper. I found an interesting article from Jacobin that I'm going to tack onto the post. It had this bit of trivia:
"At an earlier date — in 1843 — Marx himself had thought of immigrating to Texas, going so far as to apply to the mayor of Trier, his birthplace, for an immigration permit.:
Marx in Texas, imagine that! A Stetson, horse and sic guns would have gone well with that beard.
I'm beginning to wonder if John Wilkes Boothe didn't work for the military-industrial complex... Take out Lincoln for ending the war too soon and cutting into their profits.
You've got a good point. He was probably related to the Dulles brothers or J. Edgar Hoover.
Old Abe nailed it, didn't he? If John Wilkes Booth didn't assassinate Lincoln, who know what might have happened? Lincoln read Marx & Engels, who both supported the Union during the Civil War. He may have tried to move the country in a more socialist direction.
And some industrialist or banker would have found another John Wilkes Booth.
I had forgotten about that Lincoln/Marx connection. They both admired each other and Lincoln regularly read the columns Marx wrote for a US paper. I found an interesting article from Jacobin that I'm going to tack onto the post. It had this bit of trivia:
"At an earlier date — in 1843 — Marx himself had thought of immigrating to Texas, going so far as to apply to the mayor of Trier, his birthplace, for an immigration permit.:
Marx in Texas, imagine that! A Stetson, horse and sic guns would have gone well with that beard.
https://jacobin.com/2012/08/lincoln-and-marx
I'm beginning to wonder if John Wilkes Boothe didn't work for the military-industrial complex... Take out Lincoln for ending the war too soon and cutting into their profits.
Check out the update to the post and comment from Ohio Barbarian.