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Contrary to a popular myth, Abraham Lincoln never corresponded with Karl Marx.
But Friedrich Engels absolutely was pen pals with Werner Sombart, later a principle philosophical architect of National Socialism and the Third Reich ;-)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1895/letters/95_03_11.htm?fbclid=IwAR17okHHnQjN-b4h39TUSsfLRWslqTZl-x7yRXtA1fvrVwrXlUQPvjC2xfY
But Friedrich Engels absolutely was pen pals with Werner Sombart, later a principle philosophical architect of National Socialism and the Third Reich ;-)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1895/letters/95_03_11.htm?fbclid=IwAR17okHHnQjN-b4h39TUSsfLRWslqTZl-x7yRXtA1fvrVwrXlUQPvjC2xfY
Abram L. Harris in 1942, cutting to the core of what Sombart's 1934 book Deutscher Sozialismus was all about...
Harris further characterized Sombart's National Socialism as a school of thought defined by its "antilibertarianism" and repudiation of 19th century liberalism.
And here we have where Marx still clearly fits into the picture for Sombart as he's making his leap into Nazism, as per Harris's conclusion:
1936 article about how the Nazis were using Sombart's philosophical treatises to deify Hitler and the institution of the Fuehrer:
