- The Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1913
Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
- American Civil War
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Also known as the War Between the States and several other names, this was a civil war in the United States of America in which eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States.
- American Jacobins
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In a recent broadside against the Occupy movement, Alexander Cockburn assailed, among other things, “the enormous arrogance which prompted the Occupiers to claim that they were indeed the most important radical surge in living memory. Where was the knowledge of, let alone the respect for, the past?”
- Bitterly Divided
The South's Inner Civil War
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Historian David Williams lays bare the myth of a united confederacy, revealing that the South was in fact fighting two civil wars — an external one that we know so much about and an internal one about which there is scant literature and virtually no public awareness.
- The Case for Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
An argument for socialism: a society built from the bottom up through the struggles of ordinary people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice -- one in which people come before profit. A society based on the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.
- Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery
Resource Type: Book
- The Fall of the House of Dixie
The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
Story of how the American Civil War upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended.
- Free State of Jones: Three cheers!
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
From 1863 to 1865, Newton Knight (1837-1922), a white, antislavery farmer in Jones County in southern Mississippi, led an insurrection against the Confederacy. Inspired by Knight's life and struggle, Free State of Jones, written and directed by Gary Ross, is a fictional account of an enormously compelling, but little known chapter in American history.
- Karl Marx and the War Against Slavery
Black History and the Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
Alexander discusses Marx and Engels's views on the Civil War, the role of the First International in the struggle to overthrow black chattel slavery, and why the Marxist program of international working-class revolution is the key for black freedom and working-class emancipation.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
- Lincoln: A Review
Civil War, Not Compromise, Smashed Slavery
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Lincoln—Steven Spielberg’s new movie reduces the abolition of slavery to so many parliamentary maneuvers.
- Lincoln, Abraham
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
President of the United States during the American Civil War. (1809-1865).
- Lincoln Reconsidered
Essays on the Civil War Era: Third Edition, Revised and Updated
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
- Lincoln's Contested Legacy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Great Emancipator or unreconstructed racist? Defender of civil liberties or subverter of the Constitution? Each generation evokes a different Lincoln. But who was he?
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 19
Marx and Engels 1861 - 1864
Resource Type: Book
Colonialism, slavery, and the American Civil War.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 20
Marx and Engels 1864- 1868
Resource Type: Book
Includes The Prussian Military Question and the (German Workers' Party), and Value, Price and Profit, and articles and Reviews written in connection with the publication of Volume One of Capital.
- Marx at the Margins
On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
- A Marxist History of the World part 57: The American Civil War
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
One hundred and fifty years ago North America saw the start of a revolutionary war fought between rival systems and opposing political ideologies. Neil Faulkner looks at The American Civil War.
- My Brother's Keeper: African Canadians and the American Civil War
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Risking their own freedom, many African Canadians returned to the United States to participate in the Civil War and fight for the rights and liberty for all.
- 150 Years Since the Emancipation Proclamation
Finish the Civil War!
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The Emancipation Proclamation was a pledge, a promise. It only freed slaves in areas that were not yet controlled by Union armies, true enough. But in that sense it was like the Declaration of Independence in 1776, which didn’t make any of the colonies free—it took a victorious war to free the colonies from British rule. The Emancipation Proclamation bound the defense of the Union to the destruction of slavery.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 15, 2016
Lurching to War
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
The risk of nuclear war is as great now as it was at the height of the Cold War. From the time the Warsaw Pact dissolved itself and the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States has single-mindedly pursued a hyper-aggressive strategy of surrounding Russia with hostile military forces and missiles aimed at the Russian heartland.
- A People's History of the United States
1492 - Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- The right-wing, racialist attacks on the film Free State of Jones
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The new film written and directed by Gary Ross, Free State of Jones, about a white farmer in Mississippi, Newton Knight, who led an insurrection against the Confederacy from 1863 to 1865, has come under sharp attack by right-wing elements in the American media. By right-wing elements, we mean the "new right" of identity politics advocates.
- Seeds of Fire - January 1
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Underhanded History of the USA
Radical America - Volumer 7 No.3
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- An Unfinished Revolution
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
A study of Marx's analysis of the American Civil War as a conflict about slavery, not tarrfifs. Marx saw the north as a bourgeois republic, and the south as expansionist.
- An Unfinished Revolution - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 159
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Review of An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln, by Robin Blackburn.
- The War of Northern Aggression
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A leading Civil War historian challenges the new orthodoxy about how slavery ended in America.
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