It's amusing how confidently wrong some people can be. If the debate is settled, it was Oakes who settled it (in 2021, so very much "current").

Just finished reading this and my immediate thoughts are: 1) reminded that Oakes is a great writer; 2) Lincoln's approach to abolition was more complicated than people realize; 3) folks who use the "without freeing a single slave" quote should just be ignored.

1- professional historians still debate it (James Oakes recently wrote a book about it) 2- historians are the the only people whose opinions matter 3- politicians and activists debated the constitution for decades until Lincoln resolved the issue

TrotskyBotsky 𝘿𝙄𝘼𝙉𝙀𝙏𝙄𝘾𝘼𝙇 𝙈𝘼𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙄𝘼𝙇𝙄𝙎𝙏 Lincoln fully destroyed the southern slave system and executed the largest expropriation of private property in US history (not just enslaved people, but plantations etc.) The fact that Republicans gave up on Reconstructions is often used to argue that the Civil War 2/

John Andrews People like to ignore the fact that Lincoln's views and approach changed over the course of the war (and his life), which is part of what makes him an admirable figure.

Lincoln was very cool, actually. Takes a special kind of historical distortion to deny that, but hey, that's how these pseuds operate. All feels and morals, no history or materialism.

Captive Every tweet like this shifts me more and more towards class reductionism

Revolutionary Communist Party Ha! The IMT was a part of that SYRIZA government, and constantly gave it a left cover! wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Nice. They call this a “two-for”

it's still his anticommunist policy and no, the map is 100% accurate

VERY IMPORTANT ARTICLE ABOUT SOCIAL MURDER - A must-read! The Clairton Coke Works disaster: Social murder in Pennsylvania wsws.org/en/articles/20…

and if you're Matt you're politically illiterate and think liberalism can be combined with socialism

took 5 tweets but eventually she admits she's just going to complain about being a nazi in 2025 and people opposing her genocide

and then he exterminated them himself

bigotry but make it woke

oh I get it, they're basically a nazi

does this creep actually think he can do better? 🤣🤣

not a single source provided, but someone should do research on poor southern whites and whether "the entire white social order benefited politically, economically, and socially" or if this is just some more liberal ahistorical slop. don't read 1619, kids, it'll rot your brain!