Lincoln was revered by Karl Marx for growing the federal government and trampling the rights of States and individuals by waging war on them. In other words, for being a collectivist, for being a tyrant, and for masterfully crafting his PR to make him appear to be an Emancipator. In a letter written to Lincoln by "Dr. Marx" in Nov. 1864:

"The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world."

As Dr. Walter E. Williams said, facism and socialism are just two sides of the same coin.