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Marx, Tocqueville, and race in America, the "absolute democracy" or "defiled republic", August H. Nimtz

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Marx, Tocqueville, and race in America

bibliography

August H. Nimtz

the "absolute democracy" or "defiled republic"

Democracy in America : two perspectives -- The lessons of the 'most progressive nation' -- Tocqueville's America -- The judgement of recent scholarship : a balance sheet -- Toward the 'general conflagration' : theory and practice -- The 'new world view' -- Slavery, free soil and the workers movement -- Preparing for a new revolution -- 'A last card up its sleeve' : the overthrow of slavery -- Explaining the Civil War -- The new 'struggle in the press' -- From a 'constitutional' to a 'revolutionary' war -- A comradely disagreement -- The judgement of modern scholarship -- Revolutionary practice -- Marx and Engels's contribution -- A dream deferred : the failed 'attempt to reconstruct -- Democracy in America' -- Reconstruction -- Birth of a new labor movement -- Marx on race -- Overthrow of reconstruction -- Were Marx and Engels derelict -- When 'conditions' become 'ripe' -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- Thomas Messer-Kruse's, the Yankee international : recent -- Adventures in gratuitous Marx-bashing -- Marx, the suspect democrat -- The Irish turn -- 'Narrow trade unionism' -- 'False emancipation of women'[?] -- Marx's 'machinations' -- About Sorge -- Whither Yankee internationalism?