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[โ€“] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

One of the main characteristics of patriotic socialism in settler colonies is being against decolonization. Lincoln was almost certainly not pro-decolonization; as a result, I don't think it's appropriate for a US communist party to glorify him, regardless of his thoughts on Marx's work

[โ€“] RedWizard@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 11 months ago

That's a very fair point. He was in fact pro-colonization. Along side his writting of the emancipation proclamation he penned a measure that would see some 5000 black slaves sent to an island near Haiti.

A fact I was not aware of until this conversation.