Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution

Comparing Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass in Real-Time

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvAugust H. Nimtz Jr.,Kyle A. Edwards,August H. Nimtz,August H Nimtz,Kyle A Edwards

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A unique comparative look at two of the most influential historical figures of the nineteenth century: Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass.The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution is a timely and urgent work of comparative political analysis. Juxtaposing the political thought and activism of Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass, who approached politics from very different theoretical and political perspectives, Nimtz and Edwards make insightful observations and conclusions about race and class in America. The book reveals how two still competing political perspectives, liberalism and Marxism, responded to the biggest breakthrough in the quest for democracy since the French Revolution: the abolition of chattel slavery in the United States. In doing so, Nimtz and Edwards connect debates about the most contentious issues of the nineteenth century to today’s struggles for democracy, freedom, and emancipation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-09-02
Mått228 x 152 x 22 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor417
FörlagHaymarket Books
ISBN9798888905395

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“Nimtz and Edwards offer a meticulous, strikingly original, deeply researched, and profoundly insightful comparison of the real-time responses of Frederick Douglass and Karl Marx to the U.S. Civil War. They show that Douglass operated as part of a liberal abolitionist movement in which ending the institution of slavery and achieving full political rights for former slaves was an end in its own right. Yet, thousands of miles away, Marx (along with Engels) saw correctly that ending slavery could only be but one step in an inevitably longer journey. For Marx recognized that former slaves would become workers subject to capitalist exploitation. He realized that true freedom and equality required abolishing private property in general. The moral of this story applies today as much as it did then: formal democratic rights, racial inclusion, and electoral participation must not be mistaken as the end goal for working people.” – James Mahoney, Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Northwestern University