A short timeline of socialism and the fight for racial equality

1864 Karl Marx,congratulating President Lincolnon his re-election, wrote, While the workingmen, the true political powers of the North, allowed slavery to defile their own republic, while before the Negro, mastered and sold without his concurrence, they boasted it the highest prerogative of the white-skinned laborer to sell himself and choose his own master, they were unable to attain the