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.