Posted on August 25, 2022 This cartoon by Robert Minor appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1911. It shows Karl Marx surrounded by enthusiastic Wall Street financiers: Morgan partner George Perkins, J.P. Morgan, John Ryan of National City Bank, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. Immediately behind Marx is Teddy Roosevelt, leader of the Progressive Party
It my understanding from the original article (and from what Canadian historian Matthew Ehert has written, the goal was to overthrow czar Nicholas II, who was considered too "enlightened" for Wall Street interests.
If I remember right, Kerensky was the leader of the first government after the revolution, but he was overthrown by the bolsheviks. This Thompson guy was giving money to both of them? My brain hurts.
It my understanding from the original article (and from what Canadian historian Matthew Ehert has written, the goal was to overthrow czar Nicholas II, who was considered too "enlightened" for Wall Street interests.
To what purpose?
If I remember right, Kerensky was the leader of the first government after the revolution, but he was overthrown by the bolsheviks. This Thompson guy was giving money to both of them? My brain hurts.