[PeaRidge]

Have you ever studied logic, and the fallacy of gross generalization?

If you were to study Marxism, I do not think you would want to use the name Calhoun with the movement.

A more likely name of the time would be Ben Wade from Ohio.

[LS]

It's not gross generalization to read Calhoun's defense of the labor theory of value and to see that it does not differ one iota from Marx's. Calhoun is correctly known as the "Marx of the Master Class." Nor is it surprising to know that slavery is not capitalistic at all---that it is an institution entirely supported by government (i.e., the slave governments of the South).

Nor was Ben Wade a Marxist. I cannot recall any statements made by Wade about the labor theory of value---which, by the way, is the single defining element of all Marxism, socialism, communism.