Marxism and America : new appraisals / edited by Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phelps, Christopher, 1965- editor.

Vandome, Robin, editor.

Series:

Manchester scholarship online.

Manchester scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism--United States--History.

Socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 306 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Notes on contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: the Marx–America dialectic

1 The blue and the gray and the red: Marxism and Civil War memory

2 “What is the correct revolutionary proletarian attitude toward sex?”: red love and the Americanization of Marx in the interwar years

3 Marxism and Americanism: A. J. Muste, Louis Budenz, and an “American approach” before the Popular Front

4 Women, the family, and sexuality in U.S. Communist Party publications: refashioning Marxism for the Popular Front era

5 Rethinking Karl Marx: American liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War

6 Black Marxism off the color line: W. E. B. Du Bois and Oliver Cromwell Cox as democratic theorists

7 “Not picketing in front of bra factories”: Marxism, feminism, and the Weather Underground

8 A people’s history of Howard Zinn: radical popular history and its readers

9 Class, commodity, consumption: theorizing sexual violence during the feminist sex wars of the 1980s

10 Will the revolution be podcast? Marxism and the culture of “millennial socialism” in the United States

11 Does the American experience refute Marxism?

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 24, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526166661

1526166666

9781526149756

1526149753

9781526149770

152614977X

OCLC:

1255776350