THE CIVIL WAR IN THE UNITED STATES By KARL MARX and FREDERICK ENGELS *
(February 1938) THE CIVIL WAR IN THE UNITED STATES By KARL MARX and FREDERICK ENGELS Edited with an introduction by Richard Enmale xxv, 325 pp. New York. International Publishers. $2.50.Engels called the American Civil War “the first grand war of contemporaneous history”. Marx later hailed it as “the greatest event of the age”. Today when the nineteenth century has receded into the distance and the bourgeois power that issued out of the Civil War bestrides the world, we can realize the colossal magnitude of the conflict far better than they. The Second American Revolution stands out as the...