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Subject(s)

• United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Foreign public opinion [Browse]
• United States—Foreign relations—Civil War, 1861-1865 [Browse]
• United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865 [Browse]

Related name

• Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895 [Browse]

Editor

• Zimmerman, Andrew [Browse]

Summary note

"The American Civil War so profoundly shaped Marx and Engels's understanding of social revolution and international politics that it marks a watershed in the history of communism as much as it does in the history of the United States. A complete revision of the 1937 edition of the Civil War writings of Marx and Engels, this volume incorporates new texts by Marx and Engels, as well as by US authors including Communist Union Army officer Joseph Weydemeyer and African American scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois. Careful editorial guidance throughout the volume allows readers with little prior knowledge to gain a good understanding of both Marxism and the Civil War as they encounter a range of fascinating and insightful letters, newspaper articles, and philosophic expositions. Experts will discover new perspectives opened by the unique insights of Marx, Engels, and others into the US Civil War, as well as the history of slavery and freedom, race and class, communism and capitalism that defined this era and continue to define our own."--Publisher's website.

Notes

First edition: 1937.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Marx and Engels on slavery and abolition before the Civil War
• A war to preserve the Union or a war to end slavery?
• The Trent affair
• McClellan or Fremont? Constitutional or revolutionary war?
• Lincoln the revolutionary
• Reconstruction: revolution and counterrevolution after the Civil War
• Slavery and the Civil War in capital
• "The war of the enslaved against their enslavers, the only justifiable war in history": lessons of the American Civil War for revolutionaries.

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ISBN

• 9780717807536 ((paperback))
• 0717807533 ((paperback))

OCLC

972372998

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