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In 1852, he established the Proletarierbund, which would become the American Workers' League, the first Marxist organization in the United States, but it too proved short-lived, having failed to attract a native English-speaking membership. [29] In 1866, William H. Sylvis formed the National Labor Union (NLU).
The Communist Party USA and its allies played an important role in the United States labor movement, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s, but wasn't successful either in bringing the labor movement around to its agenda of fighting for socialism and full workers' control over industry, or in converting their influence in any particular union ...
German and American 1896–1988 Marxism: Mao Zedong: Shaoshan, Hunan, Qing Dynasty: Beijing, People's Republic of China: Chinese 1893–1976 Marxism-Leninism, Maoism: Slavoj Žižek: Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia: Still living Slovene (Yugoslavian before Dissolution of Yugoslavia) 1949– Western Marxism, Hegelian Marxism ...
This party, which advocated Marxism and still exists today, was a confederation of small Marxist parties and came under the leadership of Daniel De Leon. In 1901, a merger between opponents of De Leon and the younger Social Democratic Party joined with Eugene V. Debs to form the Socialist Party of America .
The first secular American socialists were German Marxist immigrants who arrived following the Revolutions of 1848, also known as Forty-Eighters. [21] Joseph Weydemeyer, a German colleague of Karl Marx who sought refuge in New York in 1851, following the 1848 revolutions, established the first Marxist journal in the U.S., called Die Revolution.
Police arrested 20 people and confiscated dozens of weapons as protesters clashed in downtown Berkeley.
American Marxist writers (2 C, 53 P) Pages in category "American Marxists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 270 total.
The AWP sought to find what it called "an American approach" for Marxism at the depth of the Great Depression. The group published a popularly-written newspaper, Labor Action , and created Unemployed Leagues, which attracted tens of thousands of members and should not be confused with the Communist Party USA 's Unemployed Councils .