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Two Intellectual Giants of the American Left

2018; Monthly Review Foundation; Linguagem: Inglês

10.14452/mr-070-02-2018-06_5

0027-0520

Paul Buhle,

Political Economy and Marxism

Instead of theory, early U.S. radicals excelled in reportage, like John Reed's Ten Days That Shook the World, or fiction, like Upton Sinclair's packing-house shocker The Jungle. To Europeans American thought seemed impermeable to the difficult ideas of Marxism. That changed with the founding of Monthly Review in 1949, which marked a newly realized if not entirely new trend in American Marxist thought. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.