Resistance 279: Red Republicans & Lincoln’s Marxists? 1848 Revolutions, 48ers, and the Roots of Centralization
Resistance Podcast #279What happens when failed European revolutions collide with the American experiment? In this deep-dive, we explore claims that radical 1848 “Forty-Eighters” (48ers) and early Marxists helped shape the rise of the Republican Party, influenced Abraham Lincoln’s wartime coalition, and pushed the United States toward a single, indivisible, centralized state.We walk through arguments presented in Red Republicans and Lincoln’s Marxists (Shotwell Publishing) and related commentary: from August Willich and Franz Sigel in Union command, to Karl Marx writing for the New York Tribune, to Frederick Engels’ letter on why an “indivisible republic” was a prerequisite for socialist revolution. We contrast Founding-era concepts of equality (rights, law, opportunity) with 19th-century socialist equality (ownership, outcomes), and trace post-war policy shifts—national banking, progressive income taxes, and public schooling—in the wider project of centralization.
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