Editing Europa: The Last Battle (section)

===== Claim (06:40): Marx openly encouraged genocide against Slavs, referring to them as "racial trash". =====
There is absolutely zero record of this. He would routinely critique precisely such racial incitements.<ref>This was done not in order to reconcile us with the other provinces, but to stir up hatred between the provinces and to '''exploit''' the '''national enmity''' between the '''Germans''' and '''Slavs''', and the regional hatred of every petty German province against all the neighboring provinces, '''in the interests of patriarchal feudal despotism'''. Divide et impera!

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Articles_from_the_NRZ.pdf</ref> We can nonetheless note that Marx and Engels both used racist, antisemitic and sexist language in private communication. Nevertheless, no specific antipathy to Slavs is evinced. '''Verdict:''' False.