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Here's another one from Fremont's campaign in 1856 http://www.bluegrayreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/800px-1856-Republican-party-Fremont-isms-caricature.jpg The same message. The Republicans are backed by people who want to redistribute the wealth, abolish marriage, acknowledge the equality of women and people of color.... This misrepresents the early Republicans as a party, but those who advocated those changes found their place in the ranks of the party and did quite well in the short period of time the Republicans functioned as a force for change... The Republican Party was detonated by a series of mass meetings at Ripon, Wisconsin, about half of the participants in which were women. These were all mostly veterans of the old Wisconsin Phalanx, a Fourierist community that essentially started the town a few years earlier. The chair of those first meetings was Alvan Bovay, the national secretary of the worker-based land reform movement in the U.S. (see the Communist Manifesto for Marx and Engels on that tendency). Our movement--such as it then was--virtually destroyed itself in the struggle to preserve the Union and abolish slavery. They were our people that started it and played an important role within in before it became sidetracked into business development. May the Sesquicentennial of the Second American Revolution see a mass revisiting of all the many questions from those days left unsettled. ML . ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
