"Taking the Civil War as his starting point for this trenchant survey of the #AmericanLeft, Hartman offers us dozens of portraits of #Marxism’s main protagonists [...] and charts their triumphs and travails all the way up to the present."
Robin Blackburn reviews #AndrewHartman's #KarlMarxInAmerica
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/karl-marx-in-america-marxism-in-us/
#Marx #AmericanMarxism #USleft #UShistory #AmericanHistory #USpolitics #books @bookstodon
"#Marx participated in the #1848revolutions in Prussia [...] Those #revolutions failed [...] Marx and many [exiles] ended up in London, but many of them ended up in the United States and they become known as the #48ers [...] they joined the Republican Party, they joined the #abolitionistMovement..."
#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #AndrewHartman, author of #KarlMarxInAmerica
https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-16-2025/
#UShistory #USCivilWar #abolitionism #KarlMarx #AmericanMarxism #books @bookstodon @histodons
Guest: Andrew Hartman is professor of history at Illinois State University. He is the author of A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars, Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School, and his latest, Karl Marx in America.
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