Re: [Marxism] Andrew Jackson: slave-owner and Indian killer

[Jim Farmelant <farmelantj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 10 May 2009 09:14:03 -0400 Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> The New York Review of Books
> Volume 56, Number 9 · May 28, 2009
> Goodbye to the 'Age of Jackson'?
> By Daniel Howe


>They can 
> 
> well bear reexamination by historians and citizens who seek to 
> understand the past and its effect on the present. Such a 
> reexamination 
> may reorient the conventional definition of a "Jacksonian" period 
> and 
> provide a new perspective on the politics of that time. Who knows, 
> today's liberals might find many of their sympathies engaged not by 
> 
> Jackson's Democrats but by the Whig party of John Quincy Adams, 
> Henry 
> Clay, and the young Abraham Lincoln.
> 
> 

The Whig Party, like the Democrats, was very much a
mixed bag.  Its Southern wing, like the Southern wing
of the Democrats was pro-slavery, and in the
1850s as agitation over slavery intensified, the
Whig Party disintegrated, opening the door for
its eventual replacement by the Republicans,
which pulled in antislavery Whigs along with
many disaffected Democrats. 

Nevertheless, the Whigs did have many progressives,
including even some proto-socialists like the
newspaperman Horace Greeley, who for
a time employed as foreign correspondents 
for his New York Tribune, both Karl Marx
and Friedrich Engels.

Jim F.
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