Those who have done their research on Abraham Lincoln and his socialist proclivities realize he has been embraced by socialists, communists, and other left-wing types. This is common knowledge among many people. What is not always common knowledge, though, is that Lincoln, with all his socialist connections, is somehow still an icon of the Right. That fact displays the large probability that those on the Right have been taught bad history and had their historical understanding tampered with, which weakens their position.
Lincoln’s love affair with the Left has been noted in an article on February 20th of this year on Jacobin, which noted that Abraham Lincoln is a hero of the Left. The article states: “From Karl Marx to Eugene Debs to 1930s American Communists, leftists have regarded Lincoln as a pro-labor hero who played a crucial role in vanquishing chattel slavery. We should celebrate him today as part of the great radical democratic tradition.” If what this writer says is true, then Lincoln would have loved China Joe Biden and what he is doing to the country now.
The writer does not claim Lincoln was a socialist, but nonetheless, he grasped the “general concept” of socialism: the primacy of labor over capital and of liberty over property. The article continued: “Proclaiming ‘Communism is 20th century Americanism’ leaders increasingly paired Lincoln with black abolitionists including Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, and Sojurner Truth…” If only those people had been aware of Lincoln’s racist turn of mind, they might have taken a different tack. Their “hero” would probably have balked at being placed in the company of black abolitionists.
In actuality, Abraham Lincoln never freed a single slave. His “Emancipation Proclamation” only applied to slaves in the Confederate States and it left slaves in slave-states still in the Union in bondage. There were five slave-states in the Union, including West Virginia, that the proclamation did not apply to. The slaves in those states were technically not freed until the passage of the 13th Amendment, which came months after Lincoln departed this mortal coil. So, Lincoln was not really opposed to slavery – unless it was Confederate slavery. He was okay with Union slavery. All the hype about him being the “Great Emancipator” is something we could label as “specious humbug.”
Most on the Left, and many on the Right, don’t like to hear the truth about Lincoln. In an article on Abbeville Institute by Dr. Boyd Cathey, he observed: “Since then (1981) criticism of Lincoln is not acceptable, not tolerated by mainstream conservatives. Instead the conservative establishment now heralds such neo-Reconstructionist historians as Allen Guelzo or even Marxist Eric Foner (a favorite of Karl Rove). Any dissent from the virtual cannonization of Lincoln with contemporary American society comes from mostly Southern traditionalists and their allies…”
Dr. Cathey is right. When I wrote for the old National Educator newspaper back in the 1980s and 1990s, I did a series of articles on Lincoln and his socialist connections. The people that complained the loudest were patriotic conservatives who were ticked off at my telling the truth about their patron political saint. They didn’t want to be exposed to the blemishes of their “conservative” hero! They refused to be confronted with the facts! Many staunch conservatives today still think today he actually freed the slaves!
In an article by Claude S. Fischer, it was noted that, “During just one term (plus 45 days) Lincoln managed to do the following, socialist-communist acts: taxed the wealth creators…exploded deficit spending…led a federal takeover of currency and banks…forced people to work for the federal government…indulged in government giveaways to special interests…expropriated private property for redistribution…”
Joe Biden would have loved him, except for his party label. But, you have to remember that in the mid-1800s the Republicans were socialists, and the Democrats were conservatives. Today, both parties are socialist–Council on Foreign Relations socialists!
-By Al Benson Jr.
O I’m a good old rebel, now that’s just what I am. For this “fair land of freedom” I do not care at all. I’m glad I fit against it, I only wish we’d won, And I don’t want no pardon for anything I done.
Much of the confusion by Americans is pinpointed well by Francis Parker Yockey in ‘Imperium’:
“Socialism” in America means even now what it meant in Europe in the 19th century, i.e., capitalism of the lower classes. Of true Socialism, nothing is known or understood in America, since Socialism is not primarily an economic organizing principle, but a political-ethical-Idea, the Spirit of a Political Age, and politics is not yet understood in America.” pp. 477-8.
Francis P. Yockey, ‘Imperium’
One of the most eye-opening books one can read about the real Lincoln is the excellent ‘Lincoln Unmasked’ by Thomas J. DiLorenzo. Mr. DiLorenzo states the documented facts about this tyrant, liar and war criminal. I strongly recommend purchasing it. If you are in a homeschooling family, make it required reading. I have vowed never to visit Washington, D.C. or Mt. Rushmore, where the wicked Lincoln is revered. Sic Semper Tyrannis.
I plan on visiting the Lincoln Memorial simply so I can spit on it with my whole family.
You are correct–all the books Tom DiLorenzo wrote about Lincoln are right on the money and should be required reading for homeschoolers. Unfortunately, lots of what passes for American history for homeschoolers could be improved upon because much of it is based on false premises.
Thanks for talking about this, although the terms are very poor. Not your fault though, we don’t have a lexicon of our own so we still say things like “the left” and “the right” “Republicans” and “Democrats”, “The Government”, “officer of the law” and all of the other things slaves say. That language and framing stems from reconstruction and whose very purpose was/is obscurification and legitimizing their parasite narrative.
Simply by adopting their terms and framing, simply by passively using their language, you have already handed them victory because the real conversation sounds completely different. Until we have our own narrative and terms, complete with writing guidelines, we will continually have lame duck discussions that we’ve have already lost with in the past, as will always be the case when you allow your enemies to manufacture your language. So don’t do that, but until its all brought together in an lexicon and all of the rest it is pointless, although I dont fault you personally for its absence. It takes far too much time and enegry to constantly convey our spiritual/cultural/racial stances through the filter of their slave language, as was baked into its very design. Our answers must necessarily be nesslted within the language we use and conveyed as we speak. Doing this one thing can change the world, and its basically free to do, but you know, we are super busy playing golf down at the country club and sending our money to Sierra Leone for the Africans to learn about Judeo-Jewsus, so we aint got no time for that 🙂
Anyway, Lincoln was a Marxist and it was a jewish takeover of America, not the “left” or the Demonrats!™ A lexicon would have solved this for us as Marxism, Communism, Globalism and all the rest are defined as jewish mechanisms designed with the intended purpose of enslaving the host race that they are parasiting on by utilizing race traitors within the host population in order to institute their false systems of slavery onto the race they are enslaving. That is the breif description anyway, there is also cultural Marxism, which is also jewish, and any conversation that doesn’t stem from that bedrock of understanding is a complete waste best reserved for morons on (((FOX))) news or (((Truth))) social. Simply tail chasing within a kennel of words they designed for you, their slave, to maintain an illusion of resistance. We must also always mention Yankees and never allow, through language, to be lumped in with them in any of their disgusting actions, and that means everything for the past 150 years, never refer to that as “American” and a whole universe of discussions and terminology open up to us.
I wrote a few things on Gab before about this, TheRougarou@Gab.com and I will try and find them and repost them today so they will be at the top of my page, they have a few links and memes about this if anyone wants to steal them for themselves. Fair warning, I don’t mince words, so thin skinned reading of my posts is not recommended.
If not, a book that somewhat details this, although it still uses a lot of Judeo slave language, is called “Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx: An Unfinished Revolution” by Robin Blackburn. It’s alright, but we could do better, if only we were brave enough, if only we actually started paying people who write things for us instead of sending it all to Africa and Jew York City.
The conversation we need to have here is impossible within the confines of the Judeo-yankee slave (foregein) language they have foisted onto us at gunpoint. We have to fix the terminology before the real discussions can even actually take place.
In my opinion.
I agree. Confusing communism with socialism (and using the terms interchangeably) is probably one of the most egregious examples. Real discussions need to take place, but most people’s minds are programmed with a crimethink module that prevents said discussions.
Good points Michael and I agree that Lincoln was in league with the Jews.Merely 4 percent of Whites owned slaves but 75 percent of Jews.It is my belief that the Jews brought blacks here fully intending to free them and destroy the White race which was created in Gods image.Booth was a half-Jew and likely a operative for the Jewish plan and not a Southern sympathizer as the narrative was worked up.The whole plan by the Jews is to destroy/corrupt Whites to hurt God and His Son Jesus.Jesus was NOT a Jew and anyone believing that has fallen for Satan’s deception.The Jews love for you to believe Christianity is derived from Satanic Judaism.But it is not.Judaism was formed after Christ died for us on the Cross and the hate Our Lord Jesus.If you fall for their lies then your soul is lost,but only you can make the choice.These events are destined to happen and must happen.To blame Christianity for the Jew/Satanic works against us puts you on the wisdom spectrum with White women,and that is very low.I do not follow Eve when she gobbles up the lies of her races enemies.She brought Adam down and is helping the Jews bring us down.But God and only He shall decide where this goes.Ultimately the victory is already won and we must maintain our faith till this life is done.We cannot give in.And we can never ever buy into the LIE that Satanic Judaism and its hatred of Our Savior Jesus is also somehow the foundation of Christian belief.Any site that tells you that is Hasbara/FED.Period.
I agree. Confusing communism with socialism (and using the terms interchangeably) is probably one of the most egregious examples. Real discussions need to take place, but most people’s minds are programmed with a crimethink module that prevents said discussions.
In the 1800s the terms socialism and communism were used interchangeably quite often and there was not that much difference noted between them. Even in our day communism has been identified by many as a radical form of socialism.
Therein lies the problem and the need for real discussion that Michael pointed out.
“‘Socialist’ I define from the word ‘social; meaning in the main ‘social equity’. A Socialist is one who serves the common good without giving up his individuality or personality or the product of his personal efficiency. Our adopted term ‘Socialist’ has nothing to do with Marxian Socialism. Marxism is anti-property; true socialism is not. Marxism places no value on the individual, or individual effort of efficiency; true Socialism values the individual and encourages him in individual efficiency, at the same time holding that his interests as an individual must be in consonance with those of the community. All great inventions, discoveries, achievements were first the product of an individual brain. It is charged against me that I am against property, that I am an atheist. Both charges are false.” p. 93.
Adolf Hitler, Dec. 28, 1938, ‘The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April ’22 – August ‘39’
I think part of the problem is that conservatives view a nation as an end it itself whereas Southlanders (my term for Southern Nationalists) view a nation as a means to an end and not an end itself. In other words the purpose of a nation is to preserve the racial stock that gave it birth. That will be the purpose of the Southland Confederation when it becomes a reality. But in the present reality the United States makes war upon its founding stock.
Alfred Rosenberg said pretty much the same thing about National Socialism: the state is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Further, their views on race have been distorted also.
Have you all read Masterless Men by Keri Leigh Merritt about the plight of poor whites in the antebellum South? Evidently they were treated far worse than slaves and lived in desperate conditions. Manifest Destiny did a great podcast about it on volkish.org. Well-researched with contemporaneous newspaper accounts, etc. Eye-opening.
I’ve read books by DiLorenzo and they are quite good.But I knew Lincoln was pure evil before that.He looked like racial filth and acted like an agent of Lucifer.He was never honest nor wise nor concerned about people.I believe he was also a homosexual(as many homosexuals in years gone by would marry crazy/off balance women like Mary Todd as cover).I also believe his soul was corrupt as a normal Christian does not cause the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Whites and the ruination of millions on behalf of primitive,savage and worthless blacks.The site centerforaninformedamerica.com has a great series on Lincoln,just look under features.It casts great doubt on what the real motives may have been by the half-Jew Booth on killing Lincoln.I have wondered why Booth killed Lincoln after the South had lost when he could have done it earlier.The series shows that most of Booths co-conspirators were most likely Union operatives.It also shows what a sideshow of freaks the Union had running and directing things.God bless all here in good faith.Christ is King.