Historical Materialism: Marxism and the American Worker

["Einde O'Callaghan" <einde.ocallaghan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Einde O'Callaghan
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Marxism and the American Worker: a special issue of Historical 
Materialism

America never stood still for Marx and Engels¹ (Irving Howe).

In 2003 Historical Materialism will publish a special issue, 'Marxism 
and the American Worker'. The centrepiece will be the first English 
translation, by Daniel Gaido of Haifa University, of the long essay 
'The American Worker' by Karl Kautsky. First published in 1906, in Die 
Neue Zeit, Kautsky was responding to Sombart¹s famous book Why Is 
There No Socialism in the United States?  The special issue will also 
include critical analyses of ongoing efforts within the Marxist 
tradition throughout the 20th century to come to terms with this 
question, a debate reignited by the publication in 2000 of It Didn¹t 
Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States, by Seymour 
Martin Lipset and Gary Marks. In essays and reviews which range 
across questions of the development of US capitalism, processes of 
class formation and struggle, cultural politics, race and racism, 
gender relations, and aspects of intellectual history, contributors 
to the special issue include Johanna Brenner, Malik Miah, Kim Moody, 
Alan Wald, Paul Le Blanc, Michael Goldfield, Robbie Lieberman, 
Charles Post, Dean Robinson, Boy Luethje, Gerald Friedman, Loren 
Goldner and Bryan Palmer.

We invite submissions, of between 4000 and 7000 words, on any of these
themes. We are especially interested in receiving empirically grounded
Marxist analyses of the contemporary US working class and the 
contemporary forms of its class struggle. We also would like to 
receive submissions assessing the work of CLR James which sought to 
come to terms with American civilisation¹.

Enquiries and submissions should be sent to the issue editor, Alan 
Johnson, at  ajoh244867@xxxxxxx

Historical Materialism is a journal of critical research in Marxist 
theory published quarterly by Brill Academic Press.



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