Phelps / Unknown / Vandome Marxism and America

New appraisals
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4977-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

If the United States has been so hostile to Marxism, what accounts for Marxism’s recurrent attractiveness to certain Americans? Marxism and America: New appraisals sheds new light on that question in essays that engage sexuality, gender, race, nationalism, class, memory, and much more.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Phelps, Christopher

Vandome, Robin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface – Nelson Lichtenstein
Introduction: the Marx–America dialectic – Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome
1 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. Battan
3 Marxism and Americanism: A. J. Muste, Louis Budenz, and an “American approach” before the Popular Front – Leilah Danielson
4 Women, the family, and sexuality in U.S. Communist Party publications: refashioning Marxism for the Popular Front era – Jodie Collins
5 Rethinking Karl Marx: American liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War – Andrew Hartman
6 Black Marxism off the color line: W. E. B. Du Bois and Oliver Cromwell Cox as democratic theorists – Paul M. Heideman
7 “Not picketing in front of bra factories”: Marxism, feminism, and the Weather Underground – Sinead McEneaney
8 A people’s history of Howard Zinn: radical popular history and its readers – Nick Witham
9 Class, commodity, consumption: theorizing sexual violence during the feminist sex wars of the 1980s – Mara Keire
10 Will the revolution be podcast? Marxism and the culture of “millennial socialism” in the United States – Tim Jelfs
11 Does the American experience refute Marxism? – Kim Moody
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Phelps is Associate Professor of American History in the department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham

Robin Vandome is Assistant Professor of American Intellectual and Cultural History in the department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham