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Καρλ Μαρξ σε χαιρετισμό - που τον σύνταξε ο ίδιος - του Κεντρικού Συμβούλιου της Διεθνούς Ένωσης Εργατών προς τον Πρόεδρο Αβραάμ Λίνκολν, το Νοέμβρη του 1864

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Sir:
We congratulate the American people upon your re-election by a large majority. If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery.
From the commencement of the titanic American strife the workingmen of Europe felt instinctively that the star-spangled banner carried the destiny of their class. […]
[…] The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world. […]

Karl Marx - letter to Abraham Lincoln, written on behalf of the International Workingmen’s Association, between November 22 & 29, 1864