The American Minervan

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  • Marx, Lincoln and Anti-Capitalistic Roots in Republicanism

    Marx, Lincoln and Anti-Capitalistic Roots in Republicanism

    Steven F. Hayward writes about the classical influences of the American Revolution: “Wood says that the American Revolution was a “republican” revolution. By that he means that it had intellectual roots ranging from ancient Greece and Rome to the English Commonwealth, and that it was more communal than capitalistic. “Ideally,” he writes, “republicanism obliterated the…