Why We Need American Marxism by Carlos L. Garrido

For decades American politicians, the representatives of the country's oligarchs, have lied to the American people about their country's relation to socialism. America has been presented as fundamentally antithetical to socialism, Marxism, and communism. Garrido shows how we have, starting in the early parts of the 19th century, a homegrown tradition of socialist thought that grounds itself in the most progressive components of American history. This is a tradition which holds that the values 1776 can only be capable of being fully realized in a socialist society. Why We Need American Marxism develops, within the Marxist framework, upon this tradition of homegrown socialism and argues that only by developing American Marxism, and organizations of working people based on it, can we overcome the crisis we are in and establish a society that is genuinely of, by, and for the people. Endorsements (Abridged) "This pamphlet will serve as prime introductory material for future cadre of an American Communist Party to ground themselves in the proud traditions of class struggle across the United States." DANNY SHAW, Professor at CUNY, Director of the Midwestern Marx Institute International Department. "Garrido’s call for American Marxism explains the errors of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and how they lead into the necessity of today with the sort of precision and insight typical of all the best texts of the Marxist canon." Read more