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I knew it! Mark Twain was a rightwingnut. ;o))

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“I knew it! Mark Twain was a rightwingnut. ;o))”

Actually, he was a socialist until industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers rescued him from certain bankruptcy over some poor business investments; most notably a typesetter that didn’t stand a prayer since the Linotype was invented within a matter of a year or two.

Renewed Twain’s belief in capitalism — although he did dislike the more in-your-face plutocrats, and said so.