How was John C. Calhoun the "Marx of the Master Class"?

Question

In Richard Hofstadter's book "The American Political Tradition", he titles his essay on Calhoun "The Marx of the Master Class. What does this mean?

Answer 1

The best way that I can put this is that Hofstadter is not calling Calhoun a 'Commie' in the modern venacular, or worst Liberal (in 2007 an evil word), he cites Calhoun as beeing a Political Thinker, a person aware of social classes & economic realities, and credits Calhoun for being able to disseminate knowledge in formming opinions regarding the status of the planter class the mass of ordinary citizens and the growing number of slaves.

In other words Calhoun was a thinker whose thoughts got published. Oh, and Calhoun was an Aristocrat, a fat cat by standards of the time, a brilliant but twisted mind.
Now going to cut and paste.. But you probably read this.
http://www.montgomerycollege.org/Departments/hpolscrv/jccalhoun.html
"""Calhoun, representing a conscious minority with special problems, brought new variations into American political thinking. although his concepts of nullification and the concurrent voice have little more than antiquarian interest for the twentieth-century mind, he also set forth a system of social
analysis that is worthy of considerable respect. Calhoun was one of a few Americans of his age- Richard Hildreth and Orestes Brownson were others - who had a keen sense for social structure and class forces. Before Karl Marx published the Communist Manifesto, Calhoun laid down an analysis
of American politics and the sectional struggle which foreshadowed some of the seminal ideas of Marx's system. A brilliant if narrow dialectician, probably the last American statesman to do any primary political thinking, he placed the central ideas of "scientific" socialism in an inverted framework of moral values and produced an arresting defense of reaction, a sort of intellectual Black Mass. ""


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Answer 2

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