If Nap III is origin of Bonapartism, and Bismarck is “German Bonapartism, and Gladstone & Disraeli is “parliamentary Bonapartism”-what is Lincoln? For sure TR is beginning of “American Bonapartism.” But where does Lincoln fit in? We know Marx was a great admirer. Is Lincoln a proto-Bonapartism? A kind of lag in the US due to a kind of lag in the Industrial Revolution? Through Grant on to TR?

Yes the “imperial presidency” begins with Lincoln in the Civil War and subsequent Republican Party. Already however there was Andrew Jackson and the subsequent Democratic Party. Both capitalist parties in the U.S. are expressions of Bonapartist. Louis Bonaparte in 1848 is central for what was revealed to Marx.

If you think we were merely defending the neofeudal thesis and simply want half the global population to be ag workers you really need to improve your ability to listen/think critically. Maybe we are full of shit/reactionaries, but not on the basis of this caricature.

@@spencerhess1312 just grabbed a few cotton buds cleaned out my ears and yeah that’s exactly what was said from 36:24 to spell it out for you, this is a neofeudal vision that puts Mackenzie Wark’s fever dream to shame

@@qaq89 I know what I said. To spell it out for you since you’re evidently such a good listener, your ability to accurately interpret what I meant is evidently what’s lacking. Marx must have been a program-making reactionary too: “For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.”

@@spencerhess1312 I’m tickled that you think this section of the german ideology that elegantly provides a materialist account for the emergence of private property, thus implying the necessity for the dictatorship of the proletariat, is a programme that lends support to converting half the population into formally 'voluntary' farmers.

Thanks Melinda, it was just a typo on our end. But yes he was born in 1885.

So we've answered this question as many times as you've tried googling it, times 100-- but we totally appreciate why people want to know. It's pastor Greg Thompson. We cannot find the original sermon that sample is from now, but you can find his sermons here: www.trinitycville.org/Sermons-And-Audio?category_set=3482638&filter_195=1119 and on KZfaq, etc. Thanks for asking.