Two decades before Karl Marx published “The Communist Manifesto,” a New York machinist who had once taught school in Princeton and Bordentown argued that American democracy could never be truly free while a small class of proprietors owned the world and everyone else owned no part of it. Thomas Skidmore, born Aug. 13, 1790, inContinue reading “Thomas Skidmore imagined redistributing wealth long before Karl Marx” The post Thomas Skidmore imagined…
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