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The labor historian Philip S. Foner on the first Marxist group in the USA, founded in 1857:
>The Communist Club of New York was not only the first Marxist organization in the Western Hemisphere; it was the only socialist (and labor) organization that invited blacks to join as equal members. Its constitution required all members to "recognize the complete equality of all persons—no matter of whatever color or sex." The club was also in the forefront of the struggle against slavery, and its members played an important role in mobilizing the German-American workers in opposition to the "peculiar institution." ....
>By 1860, these workers had become committed to a radical antislavery position. Moreover, men like Weydemeyer, Douai, and members of the Communist Club, including Sorge, formed a significant force in the Republican Party, seeking to push the party in a more radical direction, particularly in the direction of favoring the total abolition of slavery.
>When the Civil War began with the attack on Fort Sumter, most of the German radical organizations disbanded because the majority of their members enlisted in the Union forces. The New York Communist Club did not meet for the duration of the war since most of its members had joined the Union army.
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Besides mere advocacy and campaigning, Joseph Weydemeyer and Adolph Douai had a more direct influence. A conference was held at the Deutsches Haus in Chicago in May 1860. This was a meeting of German-American representatives from around the country who hoped to influence the proceedings of the Republican National Convention which would be held days later in the same city. Both men attended the conference and Douai was one of two participants tasked with preparing resolutions to be presented to the Convention on behalf of German-Americans. The proceedings of the conference worried the Convention's organizers, who feared the Republicans losing the large German-American vote in various states. As a result the conference had an important (some say decisive) impact on the Convention's decision to nominate Lincoln as the Republican Presidential candidate owing to his strong ties to that community.
THE MORE YOU KNOW.
Also, books showing Marxist view of US history: http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=202462.0
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Cultural marxist here, ask me anything
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Wow...germans ruin another country yet again
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>>67133792
What would Lenin have thought of Cultural Marxism?
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Yea, labor movements were a large part of early american manufacturing culture. Magazines, periodicals, essays and theory. Usually countered by private armies and mobs created by the factory owners.
That doesn't dismiss the fact that unionized collectives didn't become mobs within themselves.
The point of this thread is...?
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>>67133921
The influence of socialists (Marxist and Utopian) on the Republican Party is interesting.
>Alvan Bovay. In the 1840s he was interested in Fourierism (a variant of utopian socialism) and was secretary of the Land Reform Association, which enjoyed considerable support among American workingmen. It had ties to the Chartist movement and was even indirectly mentioned by Marx in the Manifesto (when he wrote of "the Agrarian Reformers in America.")
>Bovay is better known, however, as one of the founders of the Republican Party and the person who gave the party its name. He got the name from an associate of his: George Henry Evans, a leading figure in the American labor movement. Evans had claimed that there "will be but two parties, the great Republican Party of Progress and the little Tory Party of Holdbacks."
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>>67133755
Based socialism.
I read "The Communist Manifesto" (Marx & Engels) and "The Road to Wigan Pier" (Orwell in his commie days) in High School, and most of it still stands up.
Obviously Socialist movements throughout the 20th century (which were indeed legitimately Socialist) got BTFO by mixed-capitalism. Marx never put what he did into practice.
Keynesianism (or neo-Keynesianism) have won out. Capitalism when it's going well, socialism when there's an emergency, and a socials safety net to keep everyone steady on their feet.
I mean nationally of course, because we live in a world of competing nations.
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>>67133862
idk he would probably like it
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>>67134058
speaking of socialism there is a cold war forum game that is gonna start in a week: http://eregime.org/index.php?showtopic=11999
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>>67133970
I had to sit through a 20 minute neoliberalist lecture before being hired at walmart about the dangers of "unionists mobs bosses".
Funny how times change the narratives that dominate a wagies'. Then again if I really cared I'd be constantly protesting the near inhuman conditions that dominate chinese laborers.
I don't though
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