August Nimtz: Marx, Douglass and Black America: a Panel with Kyle Edwards

Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 7 p.m.
Online event. Please join us on Zoom using this link.

Join the East Side Freedom Library with noted University of Minnesota scholar August Nimtz and his coauthor Kyle Edwards as we explore the present-day themes illuminated in their book The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution: Comparing Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass in Real-Time.

Their work engages a conversation about these two competing political perspectives, liberalism and Marxism, examining the biggest breakthrough for the millennial-old democratic quest after the French Revolution occurred – the abolition of chattel slavery in the United States. In so doing, it presents potential lessons for today.