The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution : : Comparing Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass in Real-Time.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series ; v.326
• Author: H. Nimtz, August.
• TeilnehmendeR: A. Edwards, Kyle.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Materialism Book Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (427 pages)

By juxtaposing the political thought and activism of Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass, Nimtz and Edwards use comparative real-time political analysis to examine how liberalism and Marxism performed during the Second American Revolution - the Civil War and Radical Reconstruction.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- ‎Half-Title Page -- ‎Series Title Page -- ‎Title Page -- ‎Copyright Page -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Chapter 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 -- ‎Chapter 2. Prelude to the Conflagration: From Paris to Fort Sumter -- ‎1. The European Spring -- ‎1.1. Marx in the Cauldron -- ‎1.2. Douglass: a Wary Cheerleader from Afar -- ‎2. The Coming American Spring -- ‎2.1. 'Let the Battle Come': Douglass Considers Extra-Constitutional Measures -- ‎2.2. Douglass, Weydemeyer, and the Republicans in 1856 -- ‎2.3. The Crisis Deepens -- ‎2.4. King Cotton -- ‎2.5. John Brown - Agent Provocateur Extraordinaire -- ‎2.6. Lincoln's Election -- ‎2.7. The Secession Crisis -- ‎Chapter 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 -- ‎Chapter 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 -- ‎Chapter 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 -- ‎Conclusions -- ‎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 (Edwards) -- ‎Appendix B. Marx and Engels on the Race Question: A Response to the Critics (Nimtz) -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index -- Back Cover.