Brook Farm was no exception.  According to the Encyclopedia Britannica--eleventh edition (1910), Brook Farm was the "the name applied to a tract of land in Wests Roxbury, Massachusetts, on which, in 1841-47 a communistic experiment was unsuccessfully tried.  The experiment was one of the practical manifestations of the spirit of transcendentalism in New England..."
To some degree, the Transcendentalists were somewhat the 19th century forerunners of what today passes for the "New Age" movement.

While Brook Farm was experimenting with its socialist fantasies, one of the projects there was the publication there of a weekly journal called  The Harbinger.  This socialist journal was quite the publication.  Among those that wrote for it were George Ripley and Charles A Dana, although it took occasional contributions from James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Unitarian clergyman Thomas Wentworth Higginson (of Secret Six fame), and utopian socialist Horace Greeley.  Socialism it seems, had captured the minds of the elite among the elite.  Such behavior is usually the result of religious apostasy.

At this point it is interesting to note that both Horace Greeley and Charles Dana had connections with this journalistic socialist undertaking.  Again, our history books, if such they can truly be called, have failed to mention the socialism of Greeley, or the pivotal role of Dana in events having to do with the War for Southern Independence. 

After Brook Farm folded, Dana joined the staff of the New York Tribune, Greeley's paper.  In 1848 Dana traveled to Europe to cover a news event there.  Three guesses as to what that event was? In that year he wrote letters to the Tribune and other papers covering the European revolution in which Karl Marx played a key part.  One might just wonder, had he a suspicious mind, who Mr. Dana made contact with in Europe while he was covering the revolution.  Perhaps the title of the old movie Don't Start the Revolution Without Me could have applied to Mr Dana.  Dana returned to the United States in 1849 and was made managing editor of the Tribune, just under Greeley. 

It was Dana that, in 1851, formally engaged the services of Karl Marx as a regular contributor to the pages of the Tribune.  Coincidence? Of course it had to be, seeing that we all know there are no such things as left-wing conspiracies, only "right-wing" ones, that is, if you believe St Hilary!

In his capacity as managing editor, Dana used the newspaper to promote the abolitionist cause. So what else is new? 

However, in 1862, Dana and Greeley came to a parting of the ways.  Like most socialists, they couldn't get along with each other over the long haul.  Dana wanted rapid changes, while Greeley was content to take a more Fabian approach in order to secure revolution.

No sooner were Dana's connections with the Tribune severed than Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, always quick to recognize the potential of a revolutionary, snapped him up and made him a "Special Investigating Agent" for the War Department.  It appears that Dana was quite useful to Stanton.  Even Father Abraham called him "the eyes of the administration."  Dana spent much time at the front and he reported to Stanton on the methods and capacities of different generals.  Dana urged that Grant be placed in supreme command of all Union armies in the field.  Dana was also Assistant Secretary of War in 1864-65.  He was involved in other journalistic activities later in life and was a writer of some renown.  However, his strong socialist learning's before the War for Southern Independence are mostly what should concern us.  His hiring of Karl Marx to write for Greeley's newspaper in 1851 does make me wonder what contacts he had while in Europe in 1848.  Was the home-grown socialist revolutionary masquerading as a reporter in Europe to give the "party faithful" the latest input on the situation in Europe as they would know how to react in the United States.

Dana's wanting to see Grant placed in top command reminds me that Friedrich Engels, Marx's cohort, also felt much more secure about the North being able to prevail in the struggle once Grant was placed in command.  With my suspicious mind, it makes me wonder what these men knew about Grant that the "history" books have not revealed to us common folks.  Dana also had a very high opinion of the military ability of the grand arsonist, Sherman.  We are all well aware of what wonders Sherman's "scorched earth" policy accomplished in Georgia.  Little known is the fact that some of the 1848 revolutionaries that fled to America and became generals in Mr. Lincoln's army were on Sherman's staff.  Another little known tidbit the "history" books "forgot" to mention.

Dana's background, from Brook Farm on, leaves no doubt that he was radical revolutionary, just the sort to support the Union cause in the War.  We've noted in the past that many of these radicals and revolutionaries seemed to end up in high Position, either in the Union Army, in the administration of Lincoln, or in some kind of office after the War.  It seems that revolution pays its adherents well.  All this should begin to make us aware of how early our country was subverted and taken over by the enemies of Christ and the reformed Christian fait.  In the final analysis, that's what it's all about.  Apostasy from the rue Christian faith has its reward, and in our day, we are reaping those "rewards."
A noted Communist once said that much of the patriotism of the 20th century would be really be communism.  Due to the insidious nature of apostasy, he was correct.