Marxism and America

Christopher Phelps is Associate Professor of American History in the department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of NottinghamRobin Vandome is Assistant Professor of American Intellectual and Cultural History in the department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham

• Preface – Nelson LichtensteinIntroduction: the Marx–America dialectic – Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome1 The blue and the gray and the red: Marxism and Civil War memory – Matthew E. Stanley 2 “What is the correct revolutionary proletarian attitude toward sex?”: red love and the Americanization of Marx in the interwar years – Jesse F. Battan3 Marxism and Americanism: A. J. Muste, Louis Budenz, and an “American approach” before the Popular Front – Leilah Danielson4 Women, the family, and sexuality in U.S. Communist Party publications: refashioning Marxism for the Popular Front era – Jodie Collins5 Rethinking Karl Marx: American liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War – Andrew Hartman6 Black Marxism off the color line: W. E. B. Du Bois and Oliver Cromwell Cox as democratic theorists – Paul M. Heideman7 “Not picketing in front of bra factories”: Marxism, feminism, and the Weather Underground – Sinead McEneaney8 A people’s history of Howard Zinn: radical popular history and its readers – Nick Witham9 Class, commodity, consumption: theorizing sexual violence during the feminist sex wars of the 1980s – Mara Keire10 Will the revolution be podcast? Marxism and the culture of “millennial socialism” in the United States – Tim Jelfs11 Does the American experience refute Marxism? – Kim MoodyIndex

'Full of spirited and cogent arguments, prodigiously researched and vivaciously told, Marxism and America is tailor-made for activists and scholars of the present moment.' Alan Wald, University of Michigan'At last, a collection on Marxism in the United States that pays serious attention to women, sexuality and feminism.' Nancy Holmstrom, Rutgers University 'A talented group of writers. Anyone interested in understanding the past and present of the left in the United States — from Eugene Debs to W. E. B. Du Bois through AOC and Bernie Sanders — should read this book!' Bhaskar Sunkara, editor, Jacobin ‘This insightful, compelling collection shines fresh light on the vital importance of the American experience to understanding Marxist thought, as well as the value of Marxian analysis to understanding the history and social movements of the United States.’ Jonathan Bell, UCL'Filled with surprising insights, these beautifully researched essays on a wide range of topics demonstrate the importance and the diversity of Marxist-inspired politics and ideas in American history. At a moment of resurgence for the left, they are a wonderful resource.' Kimberly Phillips-Fein, New York University