Karl Marx in America

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

A new book shows that Marxism in the US "was never constrained to the reiteration of a set of dogmatic principles one associates with party ideologues."

Calls to defund the Marxist left and similar mobilizations against rumors of a new red dawn are nothing new.

Were you to vanish Marx from every library, you’d destroy the central interlocutor around which most of capitalism is built.

For two centuries, Karl Marx’s thoughts have significantly impacted US politics. In turn, his close study of the US informed the development of his ideas.

A conversation with the author of a forthcoming book about the twists and turns of Marx's legacy in America.