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I'll be having a cannabis mocktail in his honor. He was 44 I think during the Battle of Pueblo.

In a Tribune Article written in London, November 1861, Marx says, ‘The contemplated intervention in Mexico by England, France, and Spain, is, in my opinion, one of the most monstrous enterprises ever chronicled in the annals of international history’. Rubbishing the great powers stated objective that the intervention was meant to end the ‘anarchy’ in Mexico, Marx bluntly states, “There exist in England no people desirous of an intervention in Mexico save the Mexican bondholders’. He says

Zarogosa’s great defeat of Louis Napoleon on his birthday would no doubt have brought Marx some birthday cheer. Marx regarded Louis Napoleon a ridiculous and vapid figure, whose only credit lay in being able to claim to be a descendant of the Napoleon. It was Louis Napoleon’s overthrow of the seconnd French Republic, echoing his ancestors more famous overthrow of the original republic, that had moved Marx to pen one of his most famous sayings, ‘History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce’.

from here: https://historiaobscura.co.uk/2022/06/29/the-fifth-of-may-a-short-note-on-cinco-de-mayo-karl-marx-and-colonialism/