Why We Need American Marxism by Carlos L. Garrido ISBN 9798218980610, 821898061X instant download

Why We Need American Marxism by Carlos L. Garrido ISBN 9798218980610, 821898061X instant download

For decades American politicians the representatives of the country’s oligarchs have lied to the American people about their country’s relation to socialism. America has been presented as fundamentally antithetical to socialism Marxism and communism. In this book Professor Garrido shows how we have starting in the early parts of the 19th century a homegrown tradition of socialist thought that grounds itself in the most progressive components of American history. This is a tradition which holds that the values of 1776 can only be capable of being fully realized in a socialist society. Why We Need American Marxism develops within the Marxist framework upon this tradition of homegrown socialism and argues that only by developing American Marxism and organizations of working people based on it can we overcome the crisis we are in and establish a society that is genuinely of by and for the people.