An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (760 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1844677222 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 268 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Leven said Unfinished Story. It's a good book,but I was thinking it might have an analysis of the influence of Charles Dana on Lincoln. It did not,which was a disappointment. Charles Dana's influence in history is downplayed due to his socialist Republican politics. Dana was responsible for getting Karl Marx a job with the NY Tribune,and,with his office near Lincoln's office (as Undersecretary of War), it was Dana, who communicated to Lincoln, Marx's ideas on a labour theory of value. This ommission I found regretable. However,the book has value toward making the case that . Approachable History SG I finally got around to reading this. It had been on my shelf for so long as I was afraid it would be dry and/or misguided (and I am not terribly interested in the American Civil War) but it was neither. It was good history, in that it was thoroughly annotated and footnoted, and it was good writing, in that it did not present dry facts, but rather drew one into the narrative and premise.Basically the book traces Karl Marx's efforts as a cheerleader for the Civil War and for Lincoln, in opposition to mainstream Europe (especially England) which f. Landis Potter said Great book!. A lot of information that some people don't want to talk about. History that is pushed to under the table.
Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they agreed on the cause of “free labor” and the urgent need to end slavery. The ideals of communism, voiced through the International Working Men’s Association, attracted many thousands of supporters throughout the US, and helped spread the demand for an eight-hour day. Blackburn shows how the IWA in America—born out of the Civil War—sought to radicalize Lincoln’s unfinished revolution and to advance the rights of labor, uniting black and white, men and women, native and foreign-born. Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War. In addition to a range of key texts and letters by both Lincoln and Marx, this book includes articles from the radical New York-based journal Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly, an extract from Thomas Fortune’s classic work on racism Black and White, Frederick Engels on the progress of US labor in the 1880s, and Lucy Parson’s speech at the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World.. The International contributed to a profound critique of the capitalist robber barons who enriched themselves during and after the war, and it inspired an extraordinary series of strikes and class struggles in the postwar decades.
He died whilst working on the fourth volume in 1895. A co-founder of the International Workingmen’s Association in 1864, Marx died in London in 1883.Frederick Engels was born in 1820, in the German city of Barmen. He died in 1865.Karl Marx was born in 1818, in the Rhenish city of Trier, the son of a successful lawyer. In subsequ
. Brought up as a devout Calvinist he moved to England in 1842 to work in his father’s Manchester textile firm. In 1848 they collaborated in writing The Communist Manifesto. He studied law and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, completing his doctorate in 1841. About the AuthorRobin Blackburn teaches at the New School in New York and the University of Essex in the UK. He is the author of many books, including The Making of New World Slavery, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, Age Shock, Banking on Death, and The American Crucible.Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States and the author of several seminal speeches and writings, including the Gettysburg Address. In Paris three years later, Marx was introduced to the study of political economy by a former fellow student, Frederick Engels. In subsequent years he provided financial support for Marx and edited the se