Introduction: the corporate lawyer and the revolutionary -- Land and opportunity in antebellum America -- Slavery as a social system -- Secession and the Civil War: Lincoln, secession and the border states -- Slavery, emancipation, and the progress of the Civil War -- Emancipation and its discontents -- Marx and Lincoln on the fruits of the Civil War -- Epilogue: Marx and Lincoln after the defeat of the Paris Commune.
Summary
Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx might appear strange bedfellows, the president and the intellectual revolutionary. Yet they shared an abiding interest in labor, labor relations, and slavery. This volume puts the two of them in dialogue, using linked, short passages from their writings, and thereby uncovers their agreements and disagreements about this fundamental issue.
