I don't think he was a communist even though he did have correspondence with Karl Marx. I do, however, think him and his Radical Republican Party of the northeast were the left-wingers of their generation.
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FROM A NEO-CONFEDERATE/CONSERVATIVE WEBSITE
Regardless of how "conservative" the Republican Party may or may not be, it is easy to forget that there was a time when the Party was far from conservative, that in the early days of the party, socialists and outright communists played an active role. In fact, it can and will be argued here that the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 was made possible by communists and socialists, most of them German immigrants in the Midwest, and indeed the prosecution of the War depended in large part on those same alien people. Consider, for example, the following.
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