By August H. Nimtz
While Alexis de Tocqueville defined the US because the 'absolute democracy,' Karl Marx observed the country as a 'defiled republic' as long as it accepted the enslavement of blacks. during this insightful political historical past, Nimtz argues that Marx and his accomplice, Frederick Engels, had a much more acute and insightful examining of yankee democracy than Tocqueville simply because they famous that the overthrow of slavery and the cessation of racial oppression have been important to its consciousness. Nimtz's account contrasts either the writings and the civil motion of Tocqueville, Marx and Engels, noting that Marx and Engels actively mobilized the German-American group towards the slavocracy sooner than the Civil battle, and that Marx seriously supported the Union reason. This powerful and insightful research into the ways of 2 significant thinkers offers clean perception into previous and current debates approximately race and democracy in America.
Reviews:
August Nimtz's scholarship's establishes past query that Marx and Engels, now not Alexis de Tocqueville, have been the main profound scholars (and proponents) of democracy in nineteenth century the USA. a person who thinks Marx and Engels have been the highbrow fathers of twentieth century totalitarianism could be to benefit that they're extra effectively noticeable as supporters of radical democracy for blacks and all different oppressed humans on the earth. (John Manley, Stanford University)
This extraordinary research combines an acute critique of Tocqueville's celebrated writings at the usa with a provocative appreciation of Karl Marx's a ways much less famous writings at the U.S. In finding the resource of Marx's insights in a passionate activist hindrance with problems with slavery and freedom, Nimtz brilliantly info a dwelling Marxism, dedicated to democratic switch and grounding its thought in engagement with ebbing and flowing social struggles. (David Roediger, college of Illinois)
August Nimtz's paintings is a compelling sythesis of political thought and highbrow heritage. He conclusively demonstates the centrality of the U.S. for the founders of ancient materialism. Nimitz conscientiously compares the formulations of Marx and Engels to these of Tocqueville and makes a persuasive case for his or her larger buy on a society outlined via democracy, capitalism and slavery. (Gopal Balakrishnan)
This ebook makes a chain of important...claims bearing on Marx and Marxism. . . . it truly is without doubt the most leading edge and demanding defenses of Marzist concept in fresh a long time. hugely steered. (CHOICE)
...this is a most excellent ebook which each activist may still learn and examine from. (Socialist Review)
If Marx is the main influential socialist philosopher of the trendy period, Toqueville his leader democratic counterpart, and race kinfolk the critical defining factor of yank politics for over two hundred years, why have we needed to wait see you later for a scholarly comparability of the contemplating those giants in this query? This e-book, briefly, is lengthy past due, as evidenced via the insights, many fairly profound, that fly like sparks in all instructions. scholars of Marx, Toqueville, race in the United States and, possibly such a lot of all, of democracy (both the idea and the perform) will endlessly be indebted to August Nimtz for this fantastically written and terribly enlightening learn. (Bertell Ollman, big apple University)
Bringing Marx's serious techniques on race to endure on Tocqueville's imaginative and prescient of the United States because the "absolute democracy," this e-book makes a speciality of the interesting query of why Tocqueville and Marx observed the United States in such substantially other ways. . . ..The writer recounts with grace, ardour, and impecable historic aspect the unappreciated tale of Marx's involvement within the explanation for the yank Civil warfare and his efforts in help of slavery. Marx's and Engels's fight to mobilize German-American staff in aid of abolition and the Union reason is an engaging research within the function of principles and political enterprise in heritage. (Perspectives on Politics)
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40 What are the central features of socialism social-democratic-style? There are basically two characteristics. First, in positive contradistinction to the traditional Marxist-style socialism, social-democratic socialism does not outlaw private ownership in the means of production and it even accepts the idea of all means of production being privately owned—with the exception only of education, traffic and communication, central banking, and the 39 Indicators for the social-democratization of the socialist movement are the rise of the socialist party and the corresponding decline of the orthodox communist party in France; the emergence of a social-democratic party as a rival to the more orthodox labour party in Great Britain; the moderation of the communists in Italy as the only remaining powerful communist party in Western Europe toward an increasingly social-democratic policy; and the growth of the socialist-social-democratic parties in Spain and Portugal under Gonzales and Soares, both with close ties to the German SPD.
It does not need much comment to see how this increases the risk, or the cost of producing, and hence lowers the rate of investment. With this statement a first step in the analysis that follows has already been taken. What are the economic, in the colloquial sense Hans-Hermann Hoppe 63 of the term, consequences of adopting a system of social-democratic socialism? After what has just been said, it is probably no longer altogether surprising to hear that at least as regards the general direction of the effects, they are quite similar to those of traditional Marxist-type socialism.
1963. 35 Cf. note 49 below on the assessment of the somewhat different practice. Hans-Hermann Hoppe 57 to the capitalists), by adopting it, socialism’s ultimate success would only become more assured. Both of these forces co-existed within the socialist movement, though their relationship was at times quite strained, until the Bolshevik Revolution of October, 1917 in Russia. 36 The Russian events changed this. With Lenin in the lead, for the first time the revolutionary socialists realized their program and the socialist movement as a whole had to take a stand vis à vis the Russian experiment.