{"product_id":"9780807863374","title":"The Yankee International: Marxism and the American Reform Tradition, 1848-1876","description":"Examining the social and intellectual collision of the American\u003cbr\u003ereform tradition with immigrant Marxism during the Reconstruction\u003cbr\u003eera, Timothy Messer-Kruse charts the rise and fall of the\u003cbr\u003eInternational Workingman's Association (IWA), the first\u003cbr\u003einternational socialist organization. He analyzes what attracted\u003cbr\u003eAmerican reformers--many of them veterans of antebellum crusades for abolition, women's rights, and other radical causes--to the IWA, how their presence affected the course of the American Left, and why they were ultimately purged from the IWA by their orthodox Marxist comrades. \u003cbr\u003e     Messer-Kruse explores the ideology and activities of the\u003cbr\u003eYankee Internationalists, tracing the evolution of antebellum\u003cbr\u003eAmerican reformers' thinking on the question of wage labor and\u003cbr\u003eilluminating the beginnings of a broad labor reform coalition in\u003cbr\u003ethe early years of Reconstruction. He shows how American\u003cbr\u003ereformers' priority of racial and sexual equality clashed with\u003cbr\u003etheir Marxist partners' strategy of infiltrating trade unions.\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, he argues, Marxist demands for party discipline and\u003cbr\u003eideological unity proved incompatible with the Yankees' native\u003cbr\u003erepublicanism. With the expulsion of Yankee reformers from the\u003cbr\u003eIWA in 1871, American Marxism was divorced from the American\u003cbr\u003ereform tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079135969520,"sku":"9780807863374","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807863374_p0.jpg?v=1763741290","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807863374","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}