Buch, Englisch, Band 326, 420 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 816 g
Comparing Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass in Real-Time
Buch, Englisch, Band 326, 420 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 816 g
Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series
ISBN: 978-90-04-70637-8
Verlag: Brill
Nimtz’s and Edwards’s real-time comparative political analysis offers a unique look at two historically consequential figures with two very different theoretical and political perspectives, both of whom expertly examined the most contentious issue of the nineteenth century. By juxtaposing the political thought and activism of Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass, Nimtz and Edwards are able to make insightful observations and conclusions about race and class in America. The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal reveals how two still competing political perspectives, liberalism and Marxism, performed when the biggest breakthrough for the millennial-old democratic quest after the French Revolution occurred – the abolition of chattel slavery in the United States. In so doing, it presents potential lessons for today.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Two Biographies – or, Two Routes to the Quest for ‘True Democracy’
1 From Chattel Slave to Revolutionary Liberal
2 From Radical Democrat to Communist
2 Prelude to the Conflagration: From Paris to Fort Sumter
1 The European Spring
2 The Coming American Spring
3 Toward the Convergence of Douglass and Marx: From Fort Sumter to the Trent Affair
1 The ‘Fall of Sumter’
2 Douglass Gets on Board
3 Marx’s Return
4 Marx and Douglass Converge
5 ‘What’s Happening at Manassas Junction?’
6 ‘Complications with Foreign Powers’: The Trent Affair
4 From a Constitutional to a Revolutionary Civil War: ‘the Cruel and Apocalyptic War Had Become Holy’
1 ‘A Turning Point in the War Policy Had Been Reached’
2 ‘At Last the Tide of Battle Seems Fairly Turned’
3 Two Real-Time Assessments of ‘the Tremendous Conflict’
4 Slouching Toward Redemption
5 Redemption Time
6 The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
7 The Slave’s Appeal to Great Britain
5 The End of the War and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction
1 The Long Grinding Road to Appomattox
2 ‘That the Paper Proclamation Must Now Be Made Iron, Lead and Fire’
3 The Reality of Recruitment
4 Toward Lincoln’s Re-election and Union Victory
5 ‘A Missed Revolutionary Opportunity’
6 Weydemeyer’s ‘On the Negro Vote’
7 Douglass and Marx on the Same Political Page – Almost
Conclusion
1 The Key Takeaways of the Comparison
2 ‘What Is to Be Done?’– Today
Appendix A: Douglass and Marx on the Paris Commune and the Labour Question in the United States
Appendix B: Marx and Engels on the Race Question: A Response to Critics
Bibliography
Index