Writing in 1968, Eugene Genovese argued Marx, in his Civil War journalism, got the South wrong because his hatred of slavery blinded him to social origins of enslaver ideology. Genovese said Marx wrote like a liberal, & that he himself was more fully Marxist in his analysis! 
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Replying to @HartmanAndrew
If there is ever a biography of Gene, that passage should be cited as the moment he took a wrong that led to his undoing.
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Replying to @Bmore_history
It'll be hard because he destroyed a lot of his papers. But there should be, yes.
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