Marxism and America

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Marxism and America brings together a dozen scholars to reconsider the relationship of the United States to the theoretical tradition derived from Karl Marx. It aims to explain why socialism has been so difficult to establish in America as a political project even as it has exerted a notable influence in American thought. With a preface by Nelson Lichtenstein, the book offers fresh original reconsiderations, of topics ranging from the Civil War to feminist debates over sexuality and pornography, showing a measure of influence for Marxism in American intellectual life and political culture in dimensions not often perceived. The collection takes the reader from the nineteenth century, when Marx corresponded with German-American emigrés in the U.S. and wrote for American newspapers, to the millennial socialism inspired by the presidential campaigns of Bernie Sanders. Scholars in the fields of political and intellectual history, black and African-American studies, gender and sexuality, sociology, and communications will find the book's chapters of distinct interest.