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Marx in Texas (Tex-Marx?)

Charles EP M.

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Saw shared around, "hey did you know Karl Marx almost emigrated to Texas?", which doesn't source that but does source that among the German immigrants who moved there in the 19th century, one was Marx's brother-in-law, and established a lot of small communities and had a lot of cultural influence. This included:

Bettina, founded by the Adelsverein in 1847, was a failed attempt to establish a commune under the same utopian socialist principles that influenced Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s Communist Manifesto, published a year later. Yet such radicalism was far more easily assimilated on the actual frontier than it could ever be in the fantasy frontier inhabited by so many of today’s Texans. Most of the Bettina principals went on to important statewide roles: surveyor Jacob Kuechler became the state land commissioner; Gustav Schleicher, a civil engineer, helped build Texas’s railroad system and in the 1870’s was twice elected to the U.S. Congress; Ferdinand Ludwig von Herff, a pioneering Texas surgeon, was instrumental in founding the Texas Medical Association.

So there's something here. What happens if instead of going to Paris or instead of Belgium after Paris, Marx goes off to Texas for mumbly-mumble reasons and gets involved in Bettina? How would that influence his work, does Texas in general influence him, does the Manifesto get around the same as it did OTL if it's finished in Texas, would he stay, either way what happens when the US Civil War kicks off?
 
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