Did Karl Marx condone black slavery?

Marx did not condone slavery. In fact, he supported the North during the war and the cause of the freedman for political rights after the war. Karl Marx in the New-York Tribune 1861. Marx's letter to Abraham Lincoln. Marx recognized that it was impossible for free white workers to emancipate themselves while black workers remained in chains. read more

Karl Marx, “The Life-Destroying Toil of Slaves,” in The Karl Marx Library, Vol. II: On America and the Civil War, edited by Saul K. Padover (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972), 21. read more

2. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Communist Manifesto, Chicago, Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1947, page 12. 3. "Needless to say we are dealing only with direct slavery, with Negro slavery in Surinam, in Brazil, in the Southern States of North America." Marx, Poverty of Philosophy, page 94. 4. read more