Karl Marx’s editorials appeared contemporaneously to the war; with research am assuming, he got thanks to his benefactors here in the NYC socialist scene.
Marx was very deliberate in describing how the slaveholders as an oligarchy that used and abused every structure of the state and of government ―especially the US Senate, presidency and Supreme Court― for imposing their slaveocracy on the non-slaveholding states and western territories.
Marx inadvertently… 🧵