"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