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The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888

Robin Blackburn

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Illustration of Karl Marx in front of map of the United States.

The Triumphs and Travails of American Marxism

Karl Marx never visited the United States, but he and his ideas left an imprint nonetheless.

by Robin Blackburn via The Nation on October 13, 2025

Boiling House at the Sugar Plantation Asunción, Cuba, 1857.

Slavery Was Crucial for the Development of Capitalism

Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World.

by Robin Blackburn, Owen Dowling via Jacobin on April 10, 2024

Lincoln and Marx

The transatlantic convergence of two revolutionaries.

by Robin Blackburn via Jacobin on August 28, 2012

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